Hey Alex - On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Alexander Burger <[email protected]>wrote:
> Also, you can save quite some time if you pre-allocate memory, to avoid > an increase with each garbage collection. I would call (gc 800) in the > beginning, to allocate 800 MB, and (gc 0) in the end. > Thanks for the reminder about gc I remember you mentioning it over a year ago: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03308.html. I added the gc and completed 30 days of import in two minutes. I also switched to my i7 (under cygwin too) vs my xen virtual host. It ended up using 2.7 gig of disk so I had to stop it. Again, I'm reminded and impressed with the speed. Thanks Joe
