DNA performance question

Raphael Almeria almeria at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 18 22:15:15 CST 2002


>Why not store them in memory, and instead of calling another program, call
>another subroutine? This would save a number of file opens and some
forking.
>Regardless, since it's only 200 files and calls to launch the other
program,
>that probably won't amount to more than a few seconds or minutes at the
>most.

I agree.  Storing your sequence data in memory is faster although if your
data set is small then it probably won't matter too much if you read/write
files as opposed to having everything in memory.  If you have MBs of data
then you should definitely store it in memory and process it there.

TIMTOWTDI



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