Re: Large files

[John Darrington]

I added a comment to bug #17241

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:11:05PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:

     > It would seem that when processing syntax like:
     >
     >  get file='several-billion-cases.sav'.
     >  n of cases 10.
     >  list.
     >
     >
     > The pspp engine iterates through the complete file, even though it
     > doesn't need to. There's an opportunity  for optimisation here, and my
     > guess is that it would be simple to implement.
     
     You are probably right.  Want to file a bug report?

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