If the input data is seriously random, then a sparse matrix/array would 
certainly cut way down on the paging load that might result from my previous 
suggestion, but at the cost of having to do many more small-length GETMAINs 
instead of one huge GETMAIN for 1/2 gigabyte of pageable, virtual storage.

Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Bob Flanders
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 2:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Efficient Memory List

If you are simply looking for existence, you could use a bit string, but
that would be .5GB of memory if you did a single level.

Perhaps you could build a sparse array using each byte as one of a
four-level index.

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Patrick Roehl 
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I’m looking for advice on how to handle a potentially large list of data.
> The list is comprised of 4-byte entries...
>

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