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Lesson 7.5 — Processing Large Files Efficiently (Streaming)
🧬 Biological Scenario: A FASTQ file from a sequencing run can be gigabytes in size — loading it entirely into memory at once (e.g., with a function that reads the whole file into one array) can crash a script or an…
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