-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 22:47, H.S. wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > >> >> That's almost trivial. The datasets you see in the petrochemical >> industry can be in the terabyte range. They're so big, they have to >> edit in place, not write another output file. perl handles even this >> well. I/O performance is pretty much hardware bound. This is binary >> data, btw. Seismic data. > > Interesting. Never had chance to see this kind of applications. Is this > about doing signal processing and pattern recognition with that data?
Maybe. What I do know is that Perl's regex functionality has been *highly* optimized over the years. So, if the task is pattern matching over large datasets, Perl is the language to use, even over compiled languages. > BTW, is that tera byte denoting one single file? Probably not. A monolithic TB-range file would be too unwieldy to manage. Doesn't matter, though. It would be impressive, though!!!! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJaSdS9HxQb37XmcRAo+BAJsHT2Md7ONlbl+uPJv0qgqcrIjWiACdEcci IB5+GWzEeQ3VpcwGmO5nmHY= =pb9r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]