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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 1 day 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 19 hours ago

You can put 60k rows in Excel 95.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Not if each row is pi!