On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jack Ort <[email protected]> wrote: > The J for C section on s: mentions that individual symbol resources cannot > be freed up. Is there a known limit to how many symbols I could have at one > time? In the clinical usage I was thinking of, if I start encoding all > possible medication names, and clinical adverse event terms, dosage > instructions, units of measure, etc., the symbol count could get into the > hundreds of thousands easily. Would that be too much?
You have to have enough memory to store them all. Hundreds of thousands sounds like that might need a few megabytes of memory, depending on how long they were. I expect that your computer should have more than enough memory for this. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
