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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:31:06PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 6/5/2015 2:00 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
> > 
> > *snip *
> 
> *snip* Trying to provide a fully defined symbol
> for every transistor would be a huge under taking.  Our solution may not
> be ideal but I'm not sure I want to sift through thousands (tens of
> thousands?) of transistor part numbers to find what I'm looking for.

You should never have to sift! We need to create a standardized way to 
write description that is easily searched. This is how I manage my 
library - it's quite large, but I know how the descriptions work and I 
can just start typing what I'm looking for.

> I wonder how well Henner's component chooser search code would handle 
>that
> number of symbols.

Optimize it if it can't! Searching through even *millions* of data 
points is a solved problem in computing. Ideally we'd have optional 
wildcard and regex search too - something I might be willing to 
contribute to in the near future. These can all be quite fast if done 
right.

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Chris