Subj : using/storing hashtables?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : google@ari.stanford.edu (Ari)
Date : Thu Aug 07 2003 04:41 pm

Hi, I am just getting started on my first Mozilla extension and will
need a big hashtable to store a bunch of information.  I also will
need to save this table over multiple sessions.

Is this possible to do in Mozilla's javascript?  Where would I put the
code to load in a file at startup/save at shutdown?  How do I use
hashtables and how do I store them?  How bad would it be to use a
hashtable consisting of on the order of 20,000 elements?

Alternatively, is there a good place to go to find documentation on
how to do this type of stuff?  The best I've found so far is just
using lxr and looking for other examples in Mozilla code, but there
isn't much chrome stuff that resembles what I'm trying to do.

Thanks.
-Ari

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