Sebastian Haase gmail.com> writes:
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> I would expect a 700MB text file translate into less than 200MB of
> data - assuming that you are talking about decimal numbers (maybe
> total of 10 digits each + spaces) and saving as float32 binary.
> So the problem would "only" be the loading in - rathe
Dear NumPy developers,
I have to process some big data files with high-frequency
financial data. I am trying to load a delimited text file having
~700 MB with ~ 10 million lines using numpy.genfromtxt(). The
machine is a Debian Lenny server 32bit with 3GB of memory. Since
the file is just 700MB I