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From: Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>
To: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Early GC'ing

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013, oliver wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> in a loop I read in a lot of files,
> from which I just need to collect
> a small portion of the data.
> 
> Right after reading and selecting what I needed,
> I don't need any of the read file data.
> The most stuff can just be thrown away.
> 

Have you tried using Bigarray.Array1.map_file?
It should be much faster and allocate pretty much nothing.
(mmap is awesome)

-- 
Adrien Nader