Geoff Canyon wrote: > ...okay, I won't bore you all with the details. The tl;dr is that > this: > put "something" after myVariable > > is very fast, but gets slower the bigger myVariable becomes. I'm > slinging around 100s of MBs, and LC doesn't really like appending > strings to a 300mb variable... > > I have to change to read from my input line by line anyway, and > I'll write to my output the same way, and all the variables will > be much smaller then.
If the final output is going to disk, you may find that opening the output file for append yields what I believe is the fastest write mode (CouchDB and some others are append-only). Perhaps buffering some of the output and appending in batches may be optimal.
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