2 Mar
2009
2 Mar
'09
11:08 a.m.
On 2009 Mar 2, at 7:40, Manlio Perillo wrote:
Bayley, Alistair ha scritto:
All the file is consumed, before the result is returned. This only works if the entire file can reasonably fit into memory.
It's not the entire file, but only the parsed data structure.
...which, depending on what you're doing with it, can be larger than the original file (consider lists). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH