Re: Using less memory with BIG files

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There are a number of things you can improve. The two most important are:

1. If you do foreach $unit(<PFAMDB>) { } it reads the whole file into memory first, then iterates over it. If you instead write while ($unit = <PFAMDB>) { ... }, the file is read line by line.

2.Instead of doing a nested loop, read the IDs into a hash first, and then extract the IDs from the second file, and look them up in the hash. That will greatly speed up things.

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Re^2: Using less memory with BIG files by jemswira (Novice) on Feb 02, 2012 at 12:11 UTC
for the second part, I store each line as a hash key, then I don't really know what to do after that? would it make more sense if i set each group to a hash with the key being the group name and the value being the number? problem is there would be repeats for the IDs so i don't know what can i do. sorry but im still kinda new to this D:	[reply]

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