[fpc-pascal]Databases and FPC

[Peter Vreman]

> Use a very fat machine with a lot of memory, the best will be to do that
> on
> the same machine where your IRC application is running, too.
> Write a "server" part which loads the whole "database file" into a dynamic
> list on the heap, hereby sorting it. Then it offers some kind of
> communication

Under linux there is mmap() which will you let the kernel load the pages
of the database file on demand. See the man page of mmap for more info.

Peter