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Re: [bug-gawk] fseek and ftell abilities for GAWK
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Andrew J. Schorr |
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Re: [bug-gawk] fseek and ftell abilities for GAWK |
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Thu, 5 Jan 2017 15:14:51 -0500 |
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Hi,
On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:04:43PM +0200, Arnold Robbins wrote:
> I am curious as to what your definition of "large" is. On modern systems
> with many GB of RAM, maybe you could just suck your files into memory
> and work with them that way?
One further thought on this: if the dataset is too large to fit
into memory, you might consider trying the gawk-lmdb extension
from the gawkextlib project. I have found it to be a very fast
way to manipulate key-value stores on disk. There is some sample
code in the extension's test directory.
Regards,
Andy