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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 16:38:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
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Subject: Re: Weird perl problem
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On Sun, 4 May 1997, Steve Howe wrote:

> On Sun, 4 May 1997, Steve wrote:
> 
> i noticed while opening a few Megs of text files with "joe" editor,
> my terminal went completely nut, shell and everything, and i have
> to exit to the login prompt to regain control.  i'm not an expert
> on BSD RAM usage, but i something goes nuts when it gets amxed out.
> i think perl sucks in that file as one long string into memory.
> i wonder if it would crash if you chopped the file in 2 or 4 ...

The thing is, it load the data and does the math, and is done with the
file.  Its when it print out what it found is when it chokes - and at 8192
bytes.