Re: Database memory usage
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- Subject: [mg109458] Re: Database memory usage
- From: Vince Virgilio <blueschi at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:58:39 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 27, 4:06 am, David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com> wrote: SNIP > the database). And of course when sending data to the database only > send it in smaller sets of data. The general rule though is that if > you try to send a vary large amount of data to a database all at one > time (or retrieve a very large amount) you will run in to problems > eventually with the Java memory allocation. SNIP Unfortunately, that undermines the high abstraction advertised by Mathematica. Mathematica should hide this. I think it doesn't because of the mentality "everything is an expression". Seems that Mathematica's greedy evaluation leaves no breathing room for more careful consumption of large expressions (bad manners). I've noticed similar tendencies in Workbench's syntax parser. [*] Vince Virgilio [*] And I'm not convinced the cost/benefit ratio is right. Vim's lightning fast handling of superficially similar effects is very persuasive.