On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:02, Patrick Mulvany wrote:
> However If I ever heard of a case for use of a fixed width ascii file using spacing
> records this is it.
Why make your life difficult? Just use a dbm file.
- Perrin
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:07:39PM -0400, Dale Lancaster wrote:
> For the perl hash, I would key the hash on the combo of planet and date,
> something like:
>
> my %Planets = (
>
> jupiter=> {
> "1900-01-01"=> ( "5h 39m 18s", "+22o
> 4.0'", 28.922,
Perrin Harkins wrote:
simran wrote:
I need to be able to say:
* Lookup the _distance_ for the planet _mercury_ on the date _1900-01-01_
On the face of it, a relational database is best for that kind of query.
However, if you won't get any fancier than that, you can get by with
MLDBM or som
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:10, Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> My original comment was regarding threads, not processes. I run on Windows
> and see only two Apache processes, yet I have a number of Perl interpreters
> running in their own ithreads. My understanding of Perl ithreads is that
> while the synt
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 12:59, Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> > That's news to me (not being facetious). I was under the
> impression that
> > cloning Perl 5.8 ithreads cloned everything, that there was no
> sharing of
> > read-only data.
>
> We're not talking about ithreads here, just processes. The da
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 11:59, Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> > > > perhaps something such as copying the whole 800,000 rows to
> > > > memory (as a hash?) on apache startup?
> > >
> > > That would be the fastest by far, but it will use a boatload of RAM.
> > > It's pretty easy to try, so test it and see
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 11:59, Marc M. Adkins wrote:
> > > perhaps something such as copying the whole 800,000 rows to
> > > memory (as a hash?) on apache startup?
> >
> > That would be the fastest by far, but it will use a boatload of RAM.
> > It's pretty easy to try, so test it and see if you can s
> > perhaps something such as copying the whole 800,000 rows to
> > memory (as a hash?) on apache startup?
>
> That would be the fastest by far, but it will use a boatload of RAM.
> It's pretty easy to try, so test it and see if you can spare the RAM it
> requires.
Always one of my favorite soluti
Hi there,
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> simran wrote:
[snip]
> > * Lookup the _distance_ for the planet _mercury_ on the date _1900-01-01_
[snip]
> you can get by with MLDBM or something similar.
You might also want to investigate using a compiled C Btree library which
could be t
g DB_file, it would probably be somewhere between the Perl hash approach
and using the standard SQL database interface.
dale
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Subject: Large Data Set In
simran wrote:
I need to be able to say:
* Lookup the _distance_ for the planet _mercury_ on the date _1900-01-01_
On the face of it, a relational database is best for that kind of query.
However, if you won't get any fancier than that, you can get by with
MLDBM or something similar.
Currently
Hi All,
For one of the websites i have developed (/am developing), i have a
dataset that i must refer to for some of the dynamic pages.
The data is planetary data that is pretty much in spreadsheet format,
aka, i have just under 800,000 "rows" of data. I don't do any copmlex
searches or functio
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