creating really big lists

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) a écrit :
> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dr Mephesto <dnhkng at googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>I would like to create a pretty big list of lists; a list 3,000,000
>>>long, each entry containing 5 empty lists.
(snip)
> 
>>If you're building large data structures and don't need to reclaim
>>cyclical references, I suggest turning GC off, at least during
>>construction.
>  
> This is good advice, but another question is whether you really want
> such a list. You may well be better off with a database of some kind -
> they're designed for manipulating large amounts of data.

Hear hear... At least some sensible answer !-)