Subj : Re: Serializing a trie (sorting problem)
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 05:01 am

Peter Ammon wrote:
>
> Since my data set won't change, it's OK if the program takes a few days
> to run.  My current data set yields 52904 nodes, so it's not
> outrageously big, but I'll definitely have to do better than a
> try-every-possibility approach.

Can't you just zip the file with gzip after you've written it, then
unzip it into when needed?

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