>Seeing as there are about 10^85 atoms in the universe
More realistically the number that can be addressed by 64 bits. It must be
64, you're already over the amount that can be addressed by 32 bits
(something just over 2 billion). 64 bits will address some exponent number
that you won't have to
On 18 Aug 2003, Subrahmanyam Vadlamani wrote in perl:
> Suppose I want to read in large text files and want to
> do something with them. Are there any theoritical
> limits on the process size of a perl script?
Seeing as there are about 10^85 atoms in the universe, I don't think you
could have a
Title: RE: [Perl-unix-users] Thoritical limits on perl processes
Hi,
You may also want to ask yourself whether reading
the whole file into memory rather than processing it line by line is a good idea
if the file size is large.
This all depends on what you are doing with the
file's con
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Subrahmanyam Vadlamani wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Suppose I want to read in large text files and want to
> do something with them. Are there any theoritical
> limits on the process size of a perl script?
>
> My scripts are going to be running on an AIX 5.1
> machine with quite a bit of
Hi:
Suppose I want to read in large text files and want to
do something with them. Are there any theoritical
limits on the process size of a perl script?
My scripts are going to be running on an AIX 5.1
machine with quite a bit of RAM (about 8 GB RAM). I
will be using perl 5.6.0.
thanks for th
