From: Michael Linfield Date: 2008-04-09T07:30:20+09:00 Subject: Re: heavy loop functions slow That would work, but even with marshal dumping the data set is just too large for memory to handle quickly. I think I'm going to move the project over to PostgreSQL and see if that doesn't speed things up a considerable amount, Thanks Robert. - Mac -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.