> -----Original Message----- > From: Balint, Jess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:11 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Caching Large Data Structures To Disk > > > Hello all. First off, I want to thank everybody on this list > who has helped > me with with my previous questions. Thank you. > > I am working with input file of very large size. Sometimes up > to and greater > than a gig of data. I have previously gotten out of memory > errors (people at > work don't like when I do this). I was wondering if there was > a way to cache > large data structures to disk. We have a program here called > SAS that runs > on a Windows server (blek). Anyways, SAS allows me to operate > on unlimited > sizes of data, and always uses large temp files. Maybe there is a > Disk::Cache module or something that I can use to store my > data on disk > instead of memory. I know it will be slower, but is something > I am willing > to deal with. TIA.
If you go the DBM route, be sure to check out the MLDBM module on CPAN. Very nice. I use MLDBM with Storable and DB_File to manage a large intranet data store. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
