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My system has 7GB memory,how can it run out of memory for 1.5GB? 


[anony@dev-test test]$ free -g
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cac
+hed
Mem:             7          1          6          0          0        
+  0
-/+ buffers/cache:          1          6
Swap:            1          1          0

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Re^3: Why it takes so much time here?
by Eliya (Vicar) on Dec 28, 2011 at 03:43 UTC
    My system has 7GB ... (6GB free)

    On my system, creating a list of 10_000_000 scalars on Perl's stack already takes roughly 700MB. So, as you have 10 times as many, 7GB is pretty close...

    Try this 

    $ perl -MList::MoreUtils -e'any {<>} 1..10_000_000'

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    and check its memory usage with top or ps (abort with ^C).

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Re^3: Why it takes so much time here?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 28, 2011 at 03:36 UTC

    Ok, what about pure CPU speed limitations?

    15/100,000,000 s per iteration
    = 0.00000015 s per iteration
    = 150 ns per iteration

    Is that unreasonable?

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      I printed the time before and after the iteration, the result is both 1325041218: 

      print time . "\n";
my @a = any {$_== 92} 1..100000000;
print "\n";
print time;

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      So the time is not taken by the iteration..

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        oh, yes it is. 1..100000000 is executed a compile-time (constant folding).
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