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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] jkercher 37 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

60k rows of anything will be pulled into the file cache and do very little work on the drive. Possibly none after the first read.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

You can put 60k rows in Excel 95.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Not if each row is pi!