O(N) Garbage collection?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"dsimcha" <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2/19/2011 10:21 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, roughly how many, umm "characters" (I forget the 
>> technical
>> term for each T, G, etc), are in each yeast gene, and how many genes do 
>> they
>> have? (Humans have, umm, was it 26? My last biology class was ages ago.)
>>
>
> It varies massively, but you can compute the averages yourself.  There are 
> about 6,000 yeast genes and about 12 million nucleotides (the technical 
> term for "characters").  Humans have about 20k to 25k genes, and a total 
> of about 3 billion nucleotides, though a lot of this is intergenic regions 
> (stuff that isn't genes).

Ahh, I was confusing "gene" with "chromosome" (and probably still got the 
exact number wrong ;) ).

Interesting stuff. And that certianly explains the computation-practicality 
difference of yeast vs human: approx 12MB vs 3GB, assuming ASCII/UTF-8.