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Re^2: Compare 2 very large arrays of long strings as elements
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 28, 2011 at 23:12 UTC
    The cause of your excessive completion times is undoubtedly caused by virtual-memory thrashing,

    More utter bollocks!

    Unless the OP is running his program on a 10 year old machine, then 1/2GB of ram:

    @a = ('x'x70)x2e6;; @b = @a;; print total_size( \@a ) + total_size( \@b );; 512000352

    Is very unlikely to be the cause of his problem.

    His problem is entirely down to the use of a crazy algorithm inside the module he chose to use.

    Once more you are sending OPs down blind alleys with your home-spun 'wisdoms".


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