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Programmers who know how to pack a struct: your moment has come!
by jeffbee 8mo ago
Programmers who know how to pack a struct: your moment has come!
- Qem 8mo agoAlso Python generators for the lulz. They help one to write extremely memory-efficient programs. Perhaps the memory shortage further helps cement Python in the language popularity charts, vis-à-vis languages that tend to load whole data in memory by default, like R.
- kccqzy 8mo agoIf we are talking about R, a lot of people who converted from R continued to operate in the same manner, by loading entire datasets into memory with pandas and numpy.
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- 1718627440 8mo agoAnd if the dataset fits into RAM and you don't want the computer to do anything else, then this is the fastest and best approach.