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  > I have a very large plaintext file and I’m loading it fully in memory. This results in a string variable book that occupies 282 MiB of memory.

At what point does something become (very) large?

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With not really big numbers, like this one, I think of having n workers each having to do a thing. Every time you save on the memory footprint, you can grow the number of workers. Sometimes that is really really good. Usually it is probably meh

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