On Jul 12, 2014, at 1:04 PM, J Luis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Have you hit a problem with this in Julia in practice or is it a mostly hypothetical concern? I’ve worked with arrays that contain billions of entries a bunch of times and haven’t had any problems on a machine with sufficient RAM to cope with that kind of workload. — John
