[Info-vax] Looking for some text search ideas

[David Froble]

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> Me: Find a way to split the workload across multiple concurrent
> threads of execution, which then means it can be spread across
> multiple processors, thereby reducing the time to completion. 4
> processors => roughly a quarter of the single-processor elapsed time,
> though the actual effort required will increase slightly... maybe.

I'm not sure I have a clue on how to do such a thing.

Regardless, a small fraction of a second to perform the task, before any 
optimization, is more than adequate.

Frankly, I just don't see any way to optimize a search through data. 
The brute force of just checking all of it sequentially seems the only 
option.  But what do I know?  Could be, someone has come up with 
something smart that could do a quicker job.  And so I throw the 
question out to some smart people.

:-)