On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 06:58 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> That file
> is:
> 
>     96000 * 60 * 60 * 8 * 4 bytes => 
>     11059.200 Mbytes =>
>     11.059 Gbytes
> 
> Nobody is going to load the whole of that file into memory at once. 

Why not? That's tiny compared to available address space on a 64
bit machine, and personal computers have heaps
of free address space.

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