Re: memory usage multi value hash

From	Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: memory usage multi value hash
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Date	2011-04-15 10:15 +0200
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Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 4/14/2011 12:55 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>> I don't expect that it matters much, but you don't need to sort your data
>> if you use a dictionary anyway:
> 
> Which means that one can build the dict line by line, as each is read,
> instead of reading the entire file into memory. So it does matter for
> intermediate memory use.

Yes, sorry, that was a bit too much handwaving.

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memory usage multi value hash christian <ozric@web.de> - 2011-04-14 09:13 -0700
  Re: memory usage multi value hash Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-04-14 18:55 +0200
  Re: memory usage multi value hash Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-04-14 13:28 -0400
    Re: memory usage multi value hash Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-04-15 10:15 +0200
  Re: memory usage multi value hash Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> - 2011-04-15 18:01 +1000

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