I saw Yoel make a comment on reading LDIF entries.  Not really my field of
expertise, but when I implemented the ADO bridge for Windows (you can stop
here if you're using a reliable non-market dominating system) I discovered a
number of interesting sources, including LDAP if you're on 2K.  In that
case, you could use a plugin to read and return the data to squeak, we've
found with this approach and a simple database, we can bloat up our image by
100Mb or so in a minute or so.

As I said before, Squeak isn't the worlds greatest __simple__ collection
manager.  The variety of collections is wonderful, but the performance speed
of iterated OrderedCollections isn't so.  At the end of the day though,
after 20 years of snarling at the man, now I agree with Peter Deutch.  Buy a
bigger machine or solve that part of the problem differently   :-)



Mark