List or Dictionairy or neither?

[Aahz Maruch]

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In article <3B7CED19.2B5C70F1 at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
Dietmar Lang  <dietmar at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:
>
>I am currently working on an application that works with a simple, but
>relatively large data structure: a large list, with its items being
>strings, 3-4 lines long each.
>
>Now the list is shelved and I am accessing its items pretty randomly.
>I've found the access times to be rather slow. So my questions are:

Use a database.
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