Size of array

[Shari]

Nice!  I had expected a lot more of a memory issue.  This will work 
out grand :-)

I'm getting excited, doing the array this way solves some other 
problems I was pondering.

Shari

>I think you'd have to have a much bigger amount of data to run into 
>memory issues on a modern computer. Watching Activity Monitor while 
>the script runs, I saw only a small increase (1MB) in the amount of 
>active memory being used by Rev. I have 2 gigabytes on this machine, 
>but my past experiences were on a machine with only 768MB.
>
>It's hard to say exactly how much memory is used by Revolution 
>arrays without knowing the internals of how the data is stored and 
>what the 'structure overhead' is, but with 300,000 pieces of data, 
>and assuming an average length of key to be 10 characters, and an 
>average length of data to be 5 characters, that's 3MB + 1.5MB + some 
>amount of overhead, so at least 4.5MB. That's not so big in terms of 
>machines with at least hundreds of MBs of RAM.
>
>Best,
>
>Mark


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