From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-01-16T03:57:07+09:00
Subject: Re: memory usage question

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:25:47AM +0900, Mark Hahn 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.
> 
> > <oldtimer_rant>

It might be worth a try.  A quick ruby script connecting to a
PostgreSQL or some similiar DB may suprise you. I would think that the
DB has a more sophisticated method of managing memory and lookups than
I would ever have the time to research and implement.

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Alan Chen
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