Memory management for "Linked copy to data table"

[Mark Herrmann]

In some cases you need to create a copy of an existing data table as described here. However, there is no comment on how Spotfire manages the memory usage in such a case. Does anyone know if a copy of the data effectively doubles the memory consumption or does the work "linked" indicate that there is actually something smarter going on in the background and I could go down that route if required even for larger data sets

Thanks, Mark

[Peter McKinnis]

Mark,

Spotfire is intelligent about managing the memory such that memory usage does not double when onelinks to or makes a copy of an existing data table in the analysis. If needed even for larger data sets, you could create another table from an already existing data table.

- Peter

[Mark Herrmann]

Thanks! My "spohisticated" tests using windows task manager pointed in that direction but were not 100% conclsuive, so good to know...