Association Table Limitation PLEASE HELP

I'am thinking to use Association Table to save data...

My question is what is the maximum number of elements that the
Association Table of Cadence SKILL can handle and wherein it will not
crash?

About a 1000?

Please reply. Thanks in advance! (^^_)v

 

[Riad KACED]

Hi There,

Have you encountered any problem already with this ?
Does it crash at 1001 ? Why don't you give it a try actually ?
I'm not an expert of this subject but I haven't heard about any
limitation so far and I'm might be wrong.
I've quickly written this piece of skill and seems to run well at 1000
and even 1e6 and beyond ...

;; Procedure starts here
procedure( rkTestAssocTable(n outFile)
let((myAssocTable tblKey mySortedKeys outPort)
myAssocTable = makeTable(gensym('newAssocTbl) nil)
outPort=outfile(outFile)
for(i 0 n
sprintf(tblKey "key_%d" i)
myAssocTable[tblKey]=i
)
mySortedKeys = sort(myAssocTable~>? nil)
when(outPort
foreach(key mySortedKeys
fprintf(outPort "%s -> %d\n" key myAssocTable[key])
)
close(outPort)
view(get_filename(outPort))
)
t
)
)
;; Procedure ends here


I've run :
ciw> measureTime(rkTestAssocTable(1000000 "/tmp/toto"))
It gives a good results after 7.604519 secondes.

My keys are integer-based as you can see. I could have run this
function up to it's limit : n=2147483647 (2**31-1) but I didn't ...
You can try if you want !

Well, I haven't really answered you question but hope this could help
you anyway

Riad.