Out of memory errors are notoriously hard to debug; if you need to run this program on any different data than what you're using now I'd take up the offer to come up with an alternate approach. By the way, it's common for different oses to display different behavior under pressure. Windows fails early; Linux kills random programs later. Dunno what mac does. On May 26, 2013 7:26 AM, "Jeremy Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I was trying to take 9 boxes and multiply them all together, storing the > output in a single box. The first of the 9 boxes contains 12 numbers, the > second contains 11, and so on, so that the output of this calculation will > be a single box with 12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4=79,833,600 numbers. > > When I do this on Jgtk701 for Mac, the operation completes successfully and > requires about 10 seconds. On my windows machine I receive an "Out of > Memory" error. I'm using exactly the same series of commands. > > Do these errors vary by machine, or operating system? My windows laptop > has 8GB of RAM compared to my Mac's puny 4GB. > > Thanks, > Jeremy > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
