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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@programming.dev 37 points 23 hours 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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

You can put 60k rows in Excel 95.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

Not if each row is pi!