[cad-linux-dev] ouch! 1.9GB of memory and we still aren't done

From: Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:41:47 -0500

I tried running the dxf2rhizopod on a 136MB dxf with 1,000,000 
circles.  Sadly, this isn't going to work.

my notes on the process and a proposed solution are here:
  
http://ericwilhelm.homeip.net/svn/CAD-Drawing/trunk/data/notes/memory_usages.txt

This is similar to the issue which Art had solved with his dwg reader.  
If anyone wants to tear into this python code, let me know.

Alternatively, I'm wondering if perl might be better suited to this 
text-intensive process.  It seems that Perl is able to get to 4GB in 
about 1/4 the time that it took python to hit 2.  Does anyone of 
references comparing Perl's memory management to Python's?  In the 
end, it may come down to simply a matter of text-reading speed, since 
the best solution is to get this down to a manageable memory usage.

--Eric
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[cad-linux-dev] ouch! 1.9GB of memory and we still aren't done

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