Rob Dixon wrote:
Richard Lee wrote:
when you are doing it to filehandle vs array, which consumes more
memory?
my source file is about 100,000 lines...
open my $source, 'tmp/server.txt' or die !$;
VS tie my @file, 'Tie::File', '/tmp/server.txt' or die $!;
Neither of them use any significant memory until you start reading
from the file. Unless you mess about with file positioning with
seek() and tell(). the only way to retrieve the last record in a file
using a standard file handle is to read all the way through it one
line at a time. The documentation for Tie::File says this:
The file is *not* loaded into memory, so this will work even for
gigantic files.
So it is likely to be best for your needs.
Actually, Tie::File seems to be very slow.
http://www.mail-archive.com/beginners%40perl.org/msg93566.html
However, you should not worry about speed or memory usage until you
have written the clearest program you can and then find that it
consumes too many resources.
True.
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