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...(actually, space delimited) where all of the lines are three columns, a low-cardinality string, a double, and a double. The file itself is 63M. Python can load all of the data from the file really compactly (source for the script at the bottom of the message): [evan at t500 ~]$ python code/scratch/pymem.py VIRT = 25230, RSS = 860 VIRT = 81142, RSS = 55825 So this shows that my Python process starts out at 860K RSS memory before doing any processing, and ends at 55M of RSS memory. This is pretty good, actually it's better than the size of the file, since a double can be stored more compactly t...