Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] A good structure for counting things (?)

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:18:55AM +0100, Bruno De Fraine wrote:
> While this is a nice prototype, I obviously doubt this is what you  
> want when counting "gigabytes of things". But then again, it's not  
> entirely clear what you're asking for...

Specifically we're parsing Apache logfiles from [a very large company
which you will have heard of].  They produce about 1 GB of raw
logfiles / day, which we read in, line at a time, and attempt to
deduce interesting things.  There's no possibility of fitting the
logfiles into memory.  Much of the problem involves counting how many
times certain events happen.

Rich.

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