On 23.12.2010 03:44, Gavin Beau Baumanis wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> I was intrigued by your requirement to create a large file for testing.
> I remember from a really long time ago when I learnt C, that we used a specific algorithm for creating "natural" and "random" text.
> With some help from Mr.Google found out about Markov Chains that look promising - I can't remember if that was what I learned about or not - but it looks like it might be a prove helpful none the less.
>
> A little further Googlng and I found this specific post on stackoverflow.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1037719/how-can-i-quickly-create-large-1gb-textbinary-files-with-natural-content
>
>
> No Idea if it is going to help you specifically or not... but there are quite a few ideas in the comments;
> * Obtain a copy of the first 100MB from wikipedia - for example.
>
You might try some recent LINUX tar ball (~400MB).
It should be
* mainly but probably not entirely text
* very close to typical real-world data (large config file
sections, lots of source code, maybe some binary /
UTF16 data)
* accessible to everybody for independent testing etc.
Just an idea ;)
-- Stefan^2.
Received on 2010-12-24 14:26:04 CET