The parent was talking about the statistics involved. Quoting lookup times is meaningless if those lookups aren't accurate. I could implement a system which alw

The parent was talking about the statistics involved. Quoting lookup times is meaningless if those lookups aren't accurate. I could implement a system which always returns the first DB entry; lookups would take much less than 8 seconds, and by storing all other entries in /dev/null it has constant space usage ;)