On Jan 8, 2008 2:58 PM, Benoit Sigoure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this specific case of findutils, wouldn't it be even more > efficient to use a data structure that orders data according to there > common prefixes (such as Tries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie])?
While I'm sure there are file formats that would provide for more efficient searching, the user is not necessarily searching for a prefix of the path name. James.
