I wanted to use GNU APL to work with a fairly large dataset. The data is statistical output from a benchmark and it's 951192 rows and 10 columns. 8 of the columns are text (around 10 or so characters each) and the remaining two are numeric. The data is in a single text file.
I have had no end of trouble getting this data into APL. I tried generating a function and execute it, but that caused GNU APL to crash.
I'm at a point where I am considering writing a function using libfile_io to read the data, but I'm curious as to what the "proper" solution is supposed to be.
List members, what is your take on this?
Regards,
Elias