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| 322 | 322 | **A:** Yes. As currently structured, all of these classes assume that |
| 323 | 323 | your data is readily available in RAM. They will not work correctly, |
| 324 | 324 | if your dataset is too big to fit into RAM. At the time of this |
| 325 | | writing, a single atom takes about 1.5KBytes or so, so a dataset |
| 325 | writing (2017), a single atom takes about 1.5KBytes or so, so a dataset |
| 326 | 326 | consisting of 100M atoms will require about 150GBytes of RAM, plus |
| 327 | 327 | a bit more for other processes (e.g. Postgres). Since most computers |
| 328 | 328 | max out at about 256 GBytes RAM, this limits datasets to 100M atoms. |
| 329 | 329 | Some language datasets can be considerably larger than this. |
| 330 | | At this time, the largest Amazon EC2 instances are 256 GBytes. |
| 330 | At this time (2017), the largest Amazon EC2 instances are 256 GBytes. |
| 331 | 331 | |
| 332 | 332 | |
| 333 | 333 | Generic Programming / Traits |