[erlang-questions] Large array of data structures

[Kirill Zaborski]

You've got somewhat strange arithmetic rules :)

Best regards,
Kirill.

On 9/20/07, David Hopwood <david.hopwood@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Dmitrii 'Mamut' Dimandt wrote:
> > I've received a question over at "Erlang in Russian" forum,
> > http://erlang.dmitriid.com/forum/topic/11 that reads:
> > "
> > I need to process a huge array of structures - about 60 million of them
> > in total. Each structure looks like this:  {PID, type (atom), direct
> > (atom), index (Integer), nextind (Integer), prevind (Integer), position
> > (Integer)}. I think such a structure would take up about 50 bytes and
> > the entire array would then need 60 * 50 = 3 GB.
>
> 60 million * 50 bytes ~= 300 Mbytes. But that assumes that only one
> immutable copy of each of the 60 million structures is needed.
>
> --
> David Hopwood <david.hopwood@REDACTED>
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