need optimizing help

[Aahz]

In article <68aadb4a.0403131007.8eeeb26 at posting.google.com>,
rabbits77 <rabbits77 at bigmailbox.net> wrote:
>
>I have a dictionary with a very very large(possibly millions) of
>key/value pairs.

If it's literally millions, you probably want to use a database.  Just
the dictionary itself (not even talking about the objects used for keys
and values) will take at least 12MB per million entries on a machine with
32-bit addresses.
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