Wednesday, December 9, 2009

word dictionary and computer hold numbers representing words...crazy or brilliant?

(1:39:54 AM) gavino_himself: just wondering, but do java people ever have a dictionary of every english word
(1:40:18 AM) gavino_himself: and then represent string as sequences of numbers,
(1:40:46 AM) gavino_himself: so you can avoid holding strings etc in memory
(1:40:56 AM) gavino_himself: and simply de dictionary the code when need to display it?
(1:41:05 AM) gavino_himself: or hand that off to the web browser?

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