[Python-ideas] Specify number of items to allocate for array.array() constructor

[Oleg Broytman]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:48:23PM +0200, Sven Rahmann wrote:
> I'm thinking of suffix arrays (a text indexing data structure) for
> large texts, eg the human genome and its reverse complement (about 6
> billion characters from the alphabet ACGT).
> The suffix array is a long int array of the same size (8 bytes per
> number, so it occupies about 48 GB memory).

   I doubt array.array was designed to handle data of such size. Why not
to use bsddb or such?

Oleg.
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