Building a flat list of 10e6 spans requires 1.9 GB as an AoAs; or 1.1 GB as an array of strings. So trying to build a tree structure using Perl's built-in data structures, or any tree or graph module that uses them is likely to run you out of memory unless you are using 64-bit and have gobs of ram.

With a 2.5e9 range and 10e6 ranges, you're even more out of luck using a linear stick approach.

A potentially viable solution would be to use a hash of (partitioned) strings and then a split and simple search. Storing the same 10e6 ranges this way only requires 55 MB

my %r; my($i,$l,$g) = (0) x 3; for( 1 .. 10e6 ) { $r{ int( $i / 10e3 ) } .= qq[ $i -@{[ $i + ( $l = 1500 + int( -500 + rand 1000 ) ) ]} ]; $i+=$l + 25 + int( rand 25 ); };; print total_size \%r;; 55801653 print $r{ 1 };; 10972-12197 12230-13623 13659-15412 15445-17288 17319-18829 18870-2064 +5 print $r{ 100 };; 1001332-1002376 1002412-1003426 1003466-1005074 1005103-1006637 100667 +2-1007719 1007753-1009667 1009694-1011094 print $r{ 1000 };; 10000503-10002289 10002319-10003488 10003529-10004952 10004980-1000645 +9 10006492-10008122 10008165-10010163

As you can see, partitioning the dataset this way allows you to zero in on a very small subset of ranges by a simple integer division and hash lookup. After that, you have only half a dozen or so ranges to consider which should be fast enough that you don't need to do anything sophisticated.


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In reply to Re^2: Range overlap (with a lot of ranges) by BrowserUk
in thread Range overlap (with a lot of ranges) by BioLion

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