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Fuser
09-30-2002, 03:27 AM
I was checking out the skiplist and this looks like a very usefull feature for me. I like to tie into a lot of my DB's and I am curious about the limitations on this skiplist. How well would a 10,000 item skip list work, and is there a specific limit on it?

bigstar
09-30-2002, 01:12 PM
The more skiplist items you have the more of a performance hit you will encounter. There is no set limit to the number of items you can have. I would not recommend a skiplist of 10k items.

You'll want to make sure the option "Display skip items in <color>" is disabled as this requires immediate pattern matching on the file listing. Rather then on transfer.

An ideal skiplist would be less than 100 items as far as performance goes.