From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-16T03:33:36+09:00
Subject: Re: memory usage question

In article <CEENJIKJHPPGICBNAFMICEJKDEAA.mchahn@facelink.com>,
Mark Hahn <mchahn@facelink.com> wrote:
>
>> you should consider using a database
>
>Doing 200 million lookups in a db would take way too long for my script.  If
>there is no other work-around than using a DB, then I'll have to go back to
>Java, which can handle this kind of memory usage.  I'm dissapointed that in
>one of the first quick scripts I went to Ruby for, Ruby couldn't do the job.

How does java acheive this feat?
(or how do you do it in java?)
>
>> <oldtimer_rant>
>
>Don't try to compete with me on oldtimer stories.  I spent two summers
>programming an IBM 650 which had NO core memory.  It was a 1-bit processor
>with only drum memory.  Even the registers were on the drum.  It used about
>100 vacumn tubes to implement the cpu.

I think you win the prize unless there's a ENIAC user out there.

Phil