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Well, my practical usage always involves very large data sources that I need
to process flexibly and quickly.<br>
Yes, the subject should be rephrased: 'Squeak for I/O and memory intensive
tasks?'<br>
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Yoel<br>
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<pre wrap=""> However, this only proves my point - your application fits perfectly <br>into 'playing with ideas'. Have you ever tried to open 2GB database in <br>squeak and make automatic analysis of the data? Another application I <br>needed - construction of LDIF files for customer's existing data <br>sources. It worked, but it was very slow and the image was not fun to <br>touch in the (long) time it ran.<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>Yoel,<br><br>I agree, Squeak is probably not the ideal tool for managing large amount of<br>data (~2GB). But, I <br>really don't understand why you are saying that only applications like that<br>count as "practical <br>use". (There are tons of practical (and even professional) applications that<br>deal with 10MB or <br>less of data). So, did you really mean to say that or did you just choose<br>the wrong subject for <br>your posting? ("Squeak practical use?")<br><br>Nathanael<br><br></pre>
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