Re: Newbie: In memory 4 times bigger?
- Posted by Michael Raley <thinkways at yahoo.com> Feb 15, 2005
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Brent W. Hughes wrote: > > Am I correct in assuming that if a file is 1000 bytes big on disk, that when > it is > read into memory (with get_bytes()), it will take up 4000 bytes of memory? > > Brent > if you read it all directly into a sequence yes. You can allocate a memory block to store it, process a porion at a time, or compress the sequence --"ask about our layaway plan". --