Julian Kippels: > > You are doing N/2 table lookups to find the table that contains the > > data. That is, you're doing linear search on top of hashing. > > > @Wietse: N/2 is a little pessimistic, but thats only because I know the > makeup of my mailboxes? 90% of it is in one virtual domain and that
The point is that you're slower than one table, whether it's N/2 or N/somethingelse. > Anyway, I am going for a single big file now. I assume its not a problem > that this map is 40MB big? With a competent key-value store implementation, reading from a 40MB table should be no problem. Wietse