Why not keep track of the hash of blocks already stored and discard duplicates blocks from memory asap ?
I am talking here of keeping blocks as Clojure structures so the hash will be consistent between two identical blocks. Do you store them away as soon as you can ? Or are you trying to keep them around somehow in memory ? Luc > I'm loading data files of about 1-2G, which are composed of a bunch of > numeric data blocks. I need to store the data blocks w/o storing > duplicates. They arrive as vectors of floats, and are stored as primitive > byte arrays. > > I first tried memoizing the function that saves a block (returning an id), > with the core memoize function. This failed because every block became a > different key in the memoization, regardless of the content. It looks like > clojure treats variables referencing primitive arrays as equal only if they > refer to the same array. Note: > > cavm.core=> ({[1 2 3] "foo"} [1 2 3]) > "foo" > cavm.core=> ({(float-array [1 2 3]) "foo"} (float-array [1 2 3])) > nil > cavm.core=> (let [a (float-array [1 2 3])] ({a "foo"} a)) > "foo" > > > > I next tried memoizing over the vector of floats, however performance > became pathologically slow, and the process threw an OOM. I'm guessing this > is due to the memory requirements of a clojure vector of floats vs. a > primitive array of bytes holding the same data. Is there an easy way to > compare the storage requirements? > > Any suggestions on how better to handle this? > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Softaddicts<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail from my ipad! -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.