in reply to Reducing Memory Usage

Whats the average length of string, and how many are there in your 125 MB file?

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Re^2: Reducing Memory Usage
by PerlingTheUK (Hermit) on Jul 16, 2004 at 08:01 UTC
    All lines are 80 chars, adding up to about 1,6 to 1.8 million lines.
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      And how many (and what type) of objects does that translate to?

      Examine what is said, not who speaks.
      "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
      "Think for yourself!" - Abigail
      "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algoritm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon
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        One object per line, some of which (average of 20 to 50 depending on the data) are subobjects of other objects. So I have like 50000 busses and about 33 objects with timetable information each.
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