alt Hacker NewsAt first glance, it's a quite weird article. But at the bottom:
> This simply isn't true on memory constrained systems — and with 100 GB files — every system is memory constrained.
I suppose the author might have a point in the context of making apps that constantly need to process 100GB files? I personally never have to deal with 100GB files so I am no one to judge if the rest of the article makes sense.
Yeah, the article makes more sense when you assume it's for that use case, but still not really sure when this case comes up. I've dealt with plenty of 100GB files, but they were coming from outside as CSVs or sqlite DBs or something. This one is, your C program is going to generate a 100GB file to use later, and you also don't need a DB.