It's probably no fault of windows either. gcc cygwin should work.
Perhaps microsoft visual studio would too. Maybe they are still using
16 bit turbo c?
On 8/10/07, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> I did not actually try the problem under Java, but relied on the report
> given by my students. The truth is, until you mentioned it, I did not know
> that runtime heap can be increased via command line options like,
>
> java -Xms512m -Xmx512m MyApplication
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> PMana
> ***
>
> Quoting Jeffrey Jongko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Odd ... you mean doing something like this won't work in Linux? (
> > random.txt contains 1000000 16-digit numeric values) Or was it an out
> > of memory problem? If its the latter (which I got when I ran this the
> > first time) I just upped the allocated java heap size and it proceeded.
> >
> > public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
> > {
> > String[] nums = new String[1000000];
> >
> > FileReader fr = new FileReader("random.txt");
> > BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
> >
> > String currentLine;
> > int counter = 0;
> >
> > while ( (currentLine=br.readLine()) != null)
> > {
> > nums[counter] = currentLine;
> > counter++;
> > }
> > }
>
> JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pablo Manalastas
> writes:
>
> > For my CS135 class at U.P., I gave a programming
> > assignment to compare the performance of quicksort,
> > heapsort, mergesort, and radixsort, on arrays of
> > strings. Each string is of fixed size 16 characters,
> > and the sort must be done on arrays of sizes 100000,
> > 200000, 300000, ... , 900000, 1000000. The students
> > are free to choose the operating system, and the
> > programming language. I showed the class that the
> > programming assignment can be done with Debian on 1GB
> > ram, using Gnu C, by giving the class a demo of
> > quicksort of the array of one million 16-character
> > strings.
> >
> > Among the problems that my students encountered and
> > reported to me are the following:
> >
> > 1. You can not do the programming assignment on
> > Windows, since the Windows development environment can
> > not support such big arrays.
> >
> > 2. You can not do the programming assignment using
> > Java on Linux, since Java-for-Linux does not support
> > such big arrays.
>
> Not raw arrays as such, but what prevents you from using, say, an
> java.util.ArrayList? Or a java.util.Vector?
>
> Or, in fact, encapsulate the whole data structure operated on into a
> class and pass the sort method as a functor?
>
> > So the students are forced to use Linux, using C, C++
> > or any tool that allows management of large arrays.
> > Unconsciously, I gave a programming assignment that
> > promoted the use of Linux, and extolled the virtues of
> > Linux, without making the advertisement so obvious.
>
> Sure, but again, I could probably do it in Java on any platform.
>
> I'm in fact tempted to write a quick one-off to demonstrate... :P
>
> (Caveat: I'm a programmer doing lots of Java, with a love-hate
> relationship with the language. My primary development environment is
> JDEE on Emacs on a Linux system.)
>
>
>
>
>
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