On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Hades wrote: > Well I admint, yeah it's huge. Why? Because at startup I initalize > teh array for 32768 records, the max # of rooms. But it's an array of > pointers, so the memory it uses isn't overly huge, like 120k if I am > right in that a pointer to a structure is 4 bytes of data, but I might > be wrong there. I figure 120k of memory is nothing compared to the > speed and cpu time it would save me. That hash-table idea ia cool too, > I'm gonna look into it. Actually, 120K is kinda steep. :-) Since you've redesigned how the rooms are done, you probably don't have that 32K record limit anymore (conceptually at least :-) ) The hash table's probably the best way to go. - Mark markd@eskimo.com (finger markd@eskimo.com for my PGP signature)
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