metacard digest, Vol 1 #728 - 3 msgs

[Craig Spooner]

Greg,

This slowdown couldn't be due to a repeat loop you're using, rather than 
the array?  Just a thought...

Craig



>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:09:58 -0400
>From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
>Subject: Re: Limits on array dimensions
>To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
>Thanks.  I'm not a programmer, so please pardon my incorrect
>terminology.  I find arrays to be invaluable, especially when creating
>utilities that index large (300 MB and up) flat-file databases (what
>I'm doing).  However, once the number of array elements exceeds about
>150,000 (for example, to keep track of record ID's while indexing),
>processing gets progressively slower and eventually stalls even if the
>contents of the elements are small.  This does not appear to be a
>memory constraint.  My fix is to dump critical array variables to a
>file from time to time, delete the variable to free space, and recreate
>the array with new observations.  The difference in speed is remarkable.
>
>         Greg
>
>         Gregory Lypny
>         Associate Professor
>         Concordia University