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[Scott Kane]

Hi Richard,

> Depending on your indexing needs, if your data set is small 
> enough to be 
> used in RAM you might consider storing your data in custom properties.

They are pretty light actually.Just a lot of tables.
 
> Random access of properties through array notation is lightning fast, 
> and sequential access is suitable.  Surprisingly, sequential 
> access of a 
> simple line-delimited list is about 15-20% faster, and may 
> also provide 
> a reasonable solution for tables.

Cany chance of some demo code?  I'm still feeling my
way in Rev,  You can post off list if you want to:
scott at proherp.com

> I have a system I'm building which uses a mix of each, often 
> with tab-  and line-delimited tables stored in custom properties.  It's 
> reasonably fast (does a 3-criteria search at the rate of about 16k records
per 
> second) and since it's just native Transcript my client has 
> no per-user > seat fee. :)

I'd prbably need a binary format for that as I
have notes and photo's going in...

Thanks for taking the time to answer,

Scott