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RE: RE: Schwartzian Transform

by chromatic (Archbishop)
on Apr 26, 2000 at 19:01 UTC ( [id://9246]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to RE: Schwartzian Transform
in thread Schwartzian Transform

Use a tied array (@input) that operates on a disk file?

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RE (tilly) 3: Schwartzian Transform
by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 17, 2000 at 18:04 UTC
    No.

    First of all mixing references and arrays tied to disk without thinking carefully about it is asking for serious problems.

    Secondly passing the array to Perl's sort function is asking for very serious trouble. That will pass it all into memory!

    What I would do for large data structures would be to use DB_File to tie a hash to a BTree, and use properly formatted strings as keys. Blech. But it will work up to the maximum file size for your OS. (OK, up to about half that - BTrees waste something like 40% of the space in the tree.) Or use a proper database.

RE: RE: RE: Schwartzian Transform
by perlcgi (Hermit) on Apr 26, 2000 at 20:30 UTC
    Thanks chromatic, Despite the tie of @input, should not the list of references to lists overflow with very large files. Also should @a and @b be tied and what about the anonymous array. Is it possible to tie anonymous arrays, and if so would it, and the all the others require serialization? TIA

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