perl - array of integers using way too much memory?

Question

When I run the following script:

my @arr = [1..5000000];

for($i=0; $i<5000000; $i++) {
        $arr[$i] = $i;
        if($i % 1000000 == 0) {
                    


        

Answer 1

You can always use C or C++ in Perl.This will probably give you a small footprint in some hard jobs. Just an idea using C!

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Inline C;
use strict;

for(my $i=0; $i<5000000; $i++) {
        set_array_index($i,$i);
        if($i % 1000000 == 0) {
                #print "$i\n";
                print get_array_index($i)."\n";
        }
}

__END__
__C__

int array[5000000];

void set_array_index(int index,int value) {
    array[index]=value;
}

int get_array_index(int index) {

    if (array[index]==NULL)
        return 0;

    return array[index];
}