Job System or Entities for Loading, Parsing and Search a Words Dictionary

Unity Engine
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Hi there,

People are already using Job System in production without ECS and
according to 2020 Roadmap, Entities 1.0 will be production ready in 2020.1 which means its good time to get into it.

So my question is that im building a words/scrabble like game and first problem so i want to know if Job System Or Entities can be used for solving following problem, If so which approach should i use?

  • Loading a Words Dictionary either (a text file where each line has a word) to HashSet
    Or Loading and Deserializing it into a String Tri (which means i have already serialized dictionary into String Tri)

  • Searching from million words

Please advise

Thanks

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As far I am aware, there is blob data type, which can store strings. I haven’t tried it, so don’t take me to a word.

But technically, you can juz use a dictionary, which can store string data type and pretty does the same, for what you need.

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NativeString256 might be all you need to go full DOTS for your game.

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Thanks guys, i’m waiting for the updated DOTS that they showed in Unite and start reading the docs and come back here for further help.

Edit:
Btw, Any comments about using Tri for such game and if/how Job System can speed up