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I think it was you who misunderstood me.

The whole hypothetical situation of storing a buttload of data in memory is fine, but it's not because "no database is available".


SledgeHammer01 wrote:
Would you store a complete list of English words in a database


Yes, I have, for checking Scrabble words. In fact I used Access Dead | X| to do it.

For an actual spell-checker I would use a spell check tree, but I still need to persist the list between runs -- ergo, a database, which can then be loaded (perhaps on demand) the next time I run it. (The tree could be more of a cache.)


On a mobile, I expect a Web Service would be more appropriate.


SledgeHammer01 wrote:
the packed bit array is the most scalable, compact & fastest runtime.


And it's even better if you can leave it on disk rather than hold it in memory
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