On 02/04/2009 08:04 PM, Alex Samad wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:35PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:57:04AM EST, Alex Samad wrote:[silly time]32 * 4 = 128so with 128M of memory he could hold 32 Million long int - I realise the record is probably got more than int's so with 1G of spare ram he couldhave 32 bytes per record.Hmm.. 32 bytes records.. maybe a bare-bones ldap directory?well he is only comparing int by the looks of (we are just guessing until we get more info) so 4 long int records ...
Record overhead? (Python has it. Don't know about Perl.)Anyway, the solution is to find a better algorithm, not to optimize this one.
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