One more thing, if you can require 10.5, you can build a 64-bit app. You
should *still* avoid unnecessary allocations, and likely read the file in
chunks, to lower the amount of RAM your users will require in order to avoid
too much VM swapping.
--
Scott Ribe
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http://www.killerb
Thank you to both for your good advice. I will look into this.
Carl.
On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at 04:49PM, "Jens Alfke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On 11 Mar '08, at 10:18 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>
>> The first advice I can give you is "do not load the whole file into
>> memory".
>
>Ab
On 11 Mar '08, at 10:18 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
The first advice I can give you is "do not load the whole file into
memory".
Absolutely.
Use read stream to read chunk of data and process them. (see
NSInputStream or NSFileHandle).
Or if the file is simple ascii text with newlines, y
Le 11 mars 08 à 17:54, Carl E. McIntosh a écrit :
Can you please give advice about handling large data files with
memory management techniques? I am attempting to read three large
files (1 GB, 208 MB, 725 MB) sequentially and place the data into
arrays for processing. Here is my psuedocode:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Carl E. McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you please give advice about handling large data files with memory
> management techniques? I am attempting to read three large files (1
> GB, 208 MB, 725 MB) sequentially and place the data into arrays for
> proc
Can you please give advice about handling large data files with memory
management techniques? I am attempting to read three large files (1
GB, 208 MB, 725 MB) sequentially and place the data into arrays for
processing. Here is my psuedocode:
1) Import a file into NSString.
NSString *a
