Sábado, 12 de Julho de 2014 21:16:04 UTC+1, John Myles White escreveu: > > On Jul 12, 2014, at 1:04 PM, J Luis <jmf...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > 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. > Regarding the Julia world is only, as you say, an hypothetical concern ... but based on previous experience. The "sufficient RAM" is the keyword. With 32 bits less RAM (e.g. as in laptops) may have been the "sufficient".
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