Greetings!
Im planning to program a dictionary and would like to know which library configuration would work fastest.
which is most efficient and fastest: scanning one huge library file OR scanning many smaller library files for a corresponding word?
My logic goes, that if using one huge library file, it would use more memory to scan, but would be faster. If using many smaller libraries, I would have to develop a more complex logic into my program to assess which library to access, to limit unnescessary access. Besides, would looking through multiple smaller libraries be slower anyways, since the locating and loading of multiple files from HDD is slower?
Consider, that the library alltogether would weigh 10 MB as an example.