Re: var too large

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:03:29AM +0100, Thomas Michael Hagen wrote:
> 
>    my program goes through large files. some of them are almost 300Mb.

hm, do you think you really need to slurp in the whole file for a suitable
classification?

>    however, when i run the program on many files, they somehow accumulate
>    in the program's memory, and after a while exceed the limit.

depends on your program; likely you set some var to file content and forget 
to clean it before next read; say your stuff is in :v:, then when you're 
done with that you'd just

  isolate (:v:) //

to free up mem space.

HTH
-- 
paolo

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