Re: [mkgmap-dev] Memory limits for mkgmap and splitter

Hi

In PERL it is builtin "tie" functionality, I have, however, no idea what is the used data structure in mkgmap and splitter and how to translate the trick into Java. If you think that the change is trivial and point me to the critical section I might see if I get it implemented.

I was originally going to use berkeley db for the splitter and if you go back to revision 3 in subversion there is some code that uses the BerkeleyDB java edition. I gave up on it because it seemed like it would take vastly more disk space than the planet file and was much slower than I was expecting or hoping. But I didn't persevere that much before switching to the current open hash map implementation, so I'm not saying that it is unworkable. ..Steve