07-13-2012
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
Perl's only limitation is the amount of memory in your system.
If these 205 million records are 4 or 5 bytes each like you've shown, that might amount to close to a gig of memory. If they're much larger, they probably won't fit into memory on a 32-bit system and other approaches would need to be tried, such as sorting them, so you can tell when a record's absent without having to load every possible record into memory at once...
If your records aren't as you've shown, then nothing we've written for you is likely to work at all anyway. We need to see what you're really dealing with.
It is about 20 bytes in each.
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