Re: Implementing "extremes"

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> As part of my (re)implementation of EXAMINE, I have a decision to
> make.  I can store extreme values in one of two ways:
>
> 1. Keep them in dynamically allocated memory (which is what the
>    current implementation does).
>
> 2. Use a casereader.
>
> My first thought was that the casereader would be the prefered
> option.  However, whilst it's more robust, it will require an extra
> data pass and therefore slow down the command.  Keeping them on the
> heap will be faster, but could result in out-of-memory conditions if
> huge list of extremes are requested.
>
> So I'm tending towards option  1 at the moment, since in the most
> normal uses it will be faster, and could only cause a problem if
> somebody does something silly like:

Sounds fine to me.
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