Re: slow startup on windows

Everyone needs to keep an i5-gen3 around for testing.

Your application doesn't run well until it runs well on that with a SATA 
100 or 150 spinning disk. You can probably get the HP small form factor 
ones from a recycler for under $50 if you promise not to throw it in a 
landfill.

I recommend SQLite because it is "everywhere" and you get SQL access. In 
the old days we used indexed files. Used to be C-Index/II and some 
commercial XBase libraries along with Btrieve, etc. There is an 
OpenSource XBASE library

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdb/files/


On 10/25/2024 9:27 AM, Enno Rehling wrote:
> I second what Roland says, don't load all those strings into memory, 
> or at least not into FXString objects, if you can at all help it.
>
> Now, there's a chance you've got the strings in a big file that is NOT 
> a relational database, and you need to search through them in some 
> form. That still doesn't mean they all need to be an FXString (unless 
> you plan to display each and every one of them in a widget). Memory 
> allocation via new or malloc is expensive (more so with poorly written 
> allocators or on certain operating systems), and you want to avoid it 
> as much as you can.
>
> Depending on your input file format, perhaps you can just mmap [1] 
> that file into memory and index it in some other way? Of course then 
> you need to write custom code for Windows [2], because the WIN32 API 
> is special.
>
> Enno.
>
> References:
> [1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html
> [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/file-mapping
>
>
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