Donald Knuth was proud of getting an entire compiler into 1023 bytes. It wasn't a game of golf; the machine only had 1024 available. https://cacm.acm.org/news/175194-twenty-questions-for-donald-knuth/fulltext
On 10/2/17, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 6:22 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com >>> <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I am about to pick up 5 MB of data and cram it into a $ variable. >>> >>> Is there some size limit to how much data I can or should cram >>> into a variable? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> -T >>> > > On 10/02/2017 06:32 PM, Brent Laabs wrote: >> I'd recommend using less memory in a variable than your system has in >> physical RAM, or your program will get slow from swapping to disk. I've >> never had a computer with less than 8MB of memory, so you should be fine. >> > > Thank you! Me gots 12 GB of ECC RAM. :-) >
