Re: Reading from very large file
On 5/9/2010 1:46 PM, Lew wrote:
Hakan wrote:
character array buffering about 30 million characters before the heap
Lew wrote:
Eric Sosman wrote:
... and buy at least 32GB of RAM. (In other words: Not an
economical approach; cheaper -- and probably faster -- approaches
exist and have been used for decades.)
You're missing an antecedent. *What* is not an economical approach?
And why does he need to buy 32GB of RAM?
I seem to have mixed a couple unrelated sub-threads together,
coming up with the impression that somebody wanted the O.P. to read
the entire 13GB file into *one* buffer, all at once, which would
have taken ~26GB of 16-bit chars all by itself. But hunting back
through the thread I can't find the suggestion spelled out this way,
so I guess my imagination has been running away with me. *If* that
(wasteful) approach were taken, he'd need a lot of RAM. And a 64-bit
JVM, of course.
Most machines come with at least 128 MB, and 1 GB is neither unduly
expensive nor very uncommon. There's little reason in most desktop or
server environments to max out at 30M characters.
Kinda makes you wish the O.P. would let us know what he was
doing, doesn't it? (Sigh.)
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