Epic files are large. Epic reader in the main process used to throw out of memory exception on 32-bit JVM. So there is an option to run Epic reader in other process. The main JVM keeps in memory only directory of signals. Waveforms are stored in a temporary file and are loaded by demand.
However, there is a preference which controls either to use separate process or main JVM. -Dima ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Megacz <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009 0:04 am Subject: why are Epic files read using a separate process (JVM) > > I'm curious: why does Electric spawn a separate process > (EpicReaderProcess) in order to read in Epic files? Why not do it > from within the main process? > > - a > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnu-electric mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-electric > _______________________________________________ Bug-gnu-electric mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-electric
