on 12/10/2000 10:54, Jay Reeve at jktr@... wrote: Hi Jay, > On the bright side, now that it's fixed, the additional 120,000+ words only > take a time toll of a quarter-second. Here are new sample data from my 240mHz > G3: > > ============================================== > File: "bible11.txt" > 5,073,934 characters > 791,016 total word count > 13,066 different words used > Processing time: 81.92 ticks. (1.365 seconds) > ============================================== In description of alg you say that you get position in array as A[a,s,d,f] This mean for me that you do something like: A[ Str[0], Str[1], Str[2], Str[3] ] i.e. you do 4 access to byte value. Much faster will be access one time long value: A[ Long(Str[0]) ] This must work as above but faster in N times ... > 0"0 > =J= a y > " -- Best regards, Ruslan Zasukhin ------------------------- Paradigma. e-mail: ruslan@... web : http://www.paradigmasoft.com To subscribe to the Valentina mail list send a letter to valentina-on@...