On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Andrea Cimatoribus < andrea.cimatori...@nioz.nl> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the feedback, I'll try to modify my function to overcome > this issue. > Since I'm in the process of buying new hardware too, a slight OT (but > definitely related). > Does an ssd provide substantial improvement in these cases? > It should. Seek time on an ssd is quite low, and readout is fast. Skipping over items will probably not be as fast as a sequential read but I expect it will be substantially faster than a disk. Nathaniel's loop idea will probably work faster also. The sequential readout rate of a modern ssd will be about 500 MB/sec, so you can probably just divide that into your file size to get an estimate of the time needed. <snip> Chuck
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