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Good optimisation. In C you can of course avoid the copy and move overhead of the substr buffer you use and just flip pointers between a pair of buffers to get the sliding window.

Runtime on a 1GHz laptop was 10 minutes on a 3GB test file. So the benefits of doing it in C are real but perhaps hardly worth the effort unless saving 20 minutes runtime for adding X minutes coding time makes sense.

$ cat file.c #include <stdio.h> #define FILENAME "c:\\test.txt" #define CHUNK 500 int main() { FILE *f; char buf1[CHUNK],buf2[CHUNK],pair[3],*fbuf,*bbuf,*swap; int r, i; f=fopen(FILENAME,"r"); if (!f) return 1; fbuf=buf1; bbuf=buf2; r=(int)fread( fbuf, sizeof(char), CHUNK, f ); if ( !r || r<CHUNK ) return 1; pair[2]=0; while ( (r=(int)fread( bbuf, sizeof(char), CHUNK, f )) ) { for( i=0;i<r;i++ ) { pair[0]=fbuf[i]; pair[1]=bbuf[i]; /* printf("%s\n",pair);*/ } /* Move old back buffer pointer to front buffer ptr * And vice versa. Net effect is to slide buffer->R * As we will refil the back buffer with fresh data. * Thus we simply pour data from disk to memory with * no wasted copying effort. */ swap=fbuf; fbuf=bbuf; bbuf=swap; } fclose(f); return 0; }

cheers

tachyon


In reply to Re: Optimising processing for large data files. by tachyon
in thread Optimising processing for large data files. by BrowserUk

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