Yes, for arrays with the "wrong" size the virtual memory used can be up to 2 times the theoretical minimum. There are no plans to change this behaviour.
----- Original Message ----- From: bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 5, 2007 7:40 am Subject: [Jgeneral] large space overhead > When I use image3 addon to read a large jpeg, it raise a memory > limit error, (I > lower the memory limit to avoid swap). So I use 7!:5 to measure > the space in > bytes used by the named objects, > > B=: 100 200 3$2 > 7!:5 <'B' > 262144 > */4 100 200 3 > 240000 > B=: 1000 2000 3$2 > 7!:5 <'B' > 33554432 > */4 1000 2000 3 > 24000000 > B=: 2848 4288 3$2 > 7!:5 <'B' > 268435456 > */4 2848 4288 3 > 146546688 > > It requires nearly double amount of space for large object. Can > this be improved? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
