You're suggesting doing it the wrong way around. If the second file contains just the IDs, say 8 chars per, then by loading the second file into the hash, if every single one of the 300,000 ids in the first (larger) file, was also in the second file, then the hash would only require 13,899,476 bytes of ram. (That's on a 64-bit OS, probably much less on a 32-bit.).

The OP can then proocess the 'first' file line by line and print them if the ID exists within the hash constructed from the second file.

Total processing time required: ~23 seconds.

And that's a damn sight faster than you could load the larger file into the DB, and approx 1% of the time required for a full RDBMS (pgsql) to perform the query for just 2000 ids.

(R)DBs are a sledge-hammer for this nut...as with so many others for which they are routinely prescribed. If I had a hammer...I wouldn't bother to think!

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In reply to Re^2: How to cut down the running time of my program? by BrowserUk
in thread How to cut down the running time of my program? by kayj

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