And why would this be? Becasue it does not load the
entire data set at once or aka one at a time?

>If you really need to do this in place due to memory
>constraints, I
>would advise to run the iteration from back to front,
>i.e.

>foreach my $indx (reverse 0$#$ref_array)
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