I take it you aren't parsing the data. My work with a 20 MB XML showed the LLFF were 20ish seconds faster than StrToFile processing. And minutes faster than the XML DOM. Of course YMMV is evident.
-----Original Message----- From: Lew Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:47 PM What's wrong about it? The low level functions take *much* longer to process. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hill Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:29 PM On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just had an app blow up while loading a 1.3g file via file2str(). > It was the second file that size, the first one processed ok. I was > able to process the second, but only after re-booting the machine, so > I'm wondering if there are any memory compaction/clean up routines I can call in the app that are somewhat less extreme. > This is not to say that my app is at fault, however, there's plenty of > other stuff running that has nothing to > do with vfp & the machine hadn't been rebooted for a few days. If you're loading a 1.3Gb file into memory you're probably doing something wrong... Can't you process the file in chunks with FRead() or FGets()? -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
