OT: O(N) Garbage collection?

[dsimcha]

On 2/19/2011 2:46 PM, Trass3r wrote:
>> Note: I know I could make the program in question a lot more space
>> efficient, and that's what I ended up doing. It works now. It's just
>> that it was originally written for yeast, where space efficiency is
>> obviously not a concern, and I would have liked to just try a one-off
>> calculation on the human genome without having to rewrite portions of it.
>
> What kind of research do you do?

Bioinformatics.  The program in question is basically looking at what 
DNA sequence features are most predictive of gene expression.  I found 
some extreme weirdness in yeast, so I decided to see whether I could 
find the same thing in a species as distantly related as humans.