Randomthots wrote:
I repeat, I am *not* making any ****ing assertion! I asked a question; a
not unreasonable question. If the size of the file is 11 times bigger
doesn't it make some sense that that would take longer to wade through?
You see, you just made an assertion :-) As for your question, it only
makes sense if you don't have a technical background. Just like someone
who has never programmed before might thing that using short variable
names might be a good optimization. It really is very silly.
Now considering that whichever file is loaded, you end up with the same
data structures in working memory,
Bzzzzz wrong. An OpenDocument spreadsheet has more and more complex data
structures than a CSV file. This is where you show ignorance and lose
the argument.
And it's not unreasonable to speculate that having a 45 MB file loaded
into memory, when you don't have a lot of headroom to start with --
that's why I bought more RAM recently -- could knock you over the edge
into vm swap. It's a speculation, not an assertion.
But when someone with more technical background than you tells you that
this is unlikely to be a significant factor you resist their input with
all your might.
This thread would have been a lot shorter if Daniel had said, "That
might be an issue in marginal cases where you run short of RAM,
In other words, you'll only be satisfied if I tell you that you're right
even though I'm confident you are not. Look, when you parse an XML tree
and put it into RAM, you don't put the XML tags in plain text and
re-copy them every time the tag appears. You use pointers to form a data
structure that represents the information in the file. Constructing this
data structure may be a complex operation (this is called "parsing XML")
depending on the complexity of the document, but it is not dependent on
the size of the XML tag.
Note that I haven't gotten enough information to
actually make that statement and it may be completely wrong;
But you'd still like me to say it...
I give up; I guess I'll never find out.
You might try reading a book on XML and another on compexity theory.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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