I’m really confused. Do you want the indices to be 32-bit integers instead
> of 64-bit integers?
>
Yes.
> Isn’t that equivalent to asking for your code to be broken anytime your
> vector has more than typemax(Int32) elements?
>
That is also true but a much more rare case, typemax(Int32) is still a
quite high number for an array size and before an Int64 is needed changes
are non negligible that a memory requested failed because a big contigous
chunk of memory was not available. Well, this is my Matlab experience,
which I would like not have repeated in Julia.
>
> — John
>
> On Jul 12, 2014, at 12:43 PM, J Luis <jmf...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>
> julia> find(x->x>5,a)
>> 5-element Array{Int64,1}:
>> 1
>> 2
>> 7
>> 8
>> 10
>>
>
> which very very sadly are Int64. When dealing with large matrices this may
> lead to a large memory waste. These almost mandatory 64 bits issue is one
> the things that annoyed me more in Matlab for many times it was the
> difference between having something work ... or not
>
>
>
