Too Many if Statements?

[bruno at modulix]

slogging_away wrote:
> bruno at modulix wrote:
> 
> 
>>Looks like a memory problem then...
> 
> 
> The system I am using has 2GB of memory, (unless you are syaing the
> memory is faulty).

Nope, just that I don't know of any system with unlimited memory. BTW,
having 2GB of ram does not mean there are 2GB available for your program.

(And BTW, this is just one of the *possible* reasons of the problem
you've discovered. May be quite unrelated as well...)

>>Why storing error messages ? Why don't you just write'em out (be it to
>>stdout or to a file) ?
>  
> I guess I could do that, (write them to a file as they are discovered).

Well, this is how most programs do.

> Right now the error messages are stored in the array and then the the
> array is scanned via, a for loop and the error messages are written to
> several files in different formats based on the severity of the errors,
> (on a per device basis, a per severity basis, etc.).  This keeps the
> write statements to a minimum and in a central location of the script
> instead of having several statements for each individual error message
> spread throughout the script, (three write statements per error message
> at over 500 error messages would be a significant change).

This is a design problem, not an implementation problem. Just factor out
the part that do the error message dispatch into a function, then call
this function instead of storing the message. Or even better, use an
existing logging library...

> Not to complain but if I can't use arrays  then thats a pretty
> significant limitation.

Please understand that available memory is a limitation of the *system*
- you'd get the same limitation with *every* language ever (well, if you
know of a language that expand free ram ad infinitum, please let us know !-)


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bruno desthuilliers
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