Re: Allocating many workspaces.

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> The partcular problem I encountered stems from the fact, that
> for every category, I'm calling sort_create_writer, which in
> turn allocates space for a large number of cases - even if they
> are never used.  I think I can solve that problem by sorting
> the cases before categorising.  But I'm wondering if similar
> situations will arise where such an optimisation cannot be
> done.

Hmm.  This seems like a bug in the sorting code.  It shouldn't
allocate all that memory in advance.

I didn't realize at the time I wrote the sort code that there
would be a situation where we had a large number of sorters, so I
didn't think of allocating incrementally.

I doubt that it will be too difficult to fix this.  I filed it as
bug #35887.
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