Re: Slow Script

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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 = 128 
> > >
> > > so 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 could
> > > have 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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