John Doe schreef: > In constrast to the other presented solutions using a a hash slurping > all data from the intput file, the advantage of my solution is that > it is *capable to handle 300GB input files* even with 128MB RAM.
Also in contrast is that your solution assumes sorted input, which wasn't anounced. The hash isn't slurping all data: only the unique values of the first column are stored. -- Grtz, Ruud -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
