I will have to check that out, but (superficially) I wouldn't think so. Each running of the entire script typically involves 2000-7000 files (not the entire 10,000), but the files range from 3 MB to over 5 Mb, and that would make a fairly massive database. The secondary processing of the files after writing takes advantage of the sequential numbering, and the operations involved don't really lend themselves to database lookups (and involve other external programs). I typically (in the second stage) process subsets 400 to 1000 of the files at a time just to keep the final output files (which involve combining the data in the original files) to a reasonable size.

In reply to Re^4: looping efficiency by Anonymous Monk
in thread looping efficiency by Anonymous Monk

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