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Subject: Re: ID3 database browsingRe: ID3 database browsing
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From: karl 'the_angry_angel' southern <the_angry_angel_at_blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:36:25 +0100
Björn Stenberg wrote:
>Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
>
>
>>2) How to design the database to allow for fast searching/browsing with
>>as little memory usage as possible? We can waste quite a lot of disk
>>space, but not that much RAM.
>>
>>
>Here's a discussion starter. For the above three fields, we could use four files:
>
>allfiles.id3db is a simple file list, one file per line. The list is un sorted.
>
Excuse me if I'm being ignorant, but doesnt openning and reading a file
in C have a greater overhead than reading a directory? Or is it less
significant than I believe?
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:36:25 +0100
Björn Stenberg wrote:
>Linus Nielsen Feltzing wrote:
>
>
>>2) How to design the database to allow for fast searching/browsing with
>>as little memory usage as possible? We can waste quite a lot of disk
>>space, but not that much RAM.
>>
>>
>Here's a discussion starter. For the above three fields, we could use four files:
>
>allfiles.id3db is a simple file list, one file per line. The list is un sorted.
>
Excuse me if I'm being ignorant, but doesnt openning and reading a file
in C have a greater overhead than reading a directory? Or is it less
significant than I believe?
-- Karl 'the_angry_angel' Southern http://theangryangel.is-a-geek.com/ _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockboxReceived on 2004-10-13
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