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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

On 5 June 2015 at 11:54, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

As I said, I wouldn't worry about that. In my day-job I am working
with billions of things to search from, so this is peanuts.

-h