On a related note, I think there's a bug in the Mac version of j701. It doesn't seem to recognise when it has run out of memory and brings my system to a crawl.
This has happened with operations involving data thats starts off as something like i.1e10, which on its own is considerably less than 2^62. On 10 Oct 2011, at 19:12, Björn Helgason wrote: > 9!:20 > 9!:21 *Memory Limit*. An upper bound on the size of any one memory > allocation. The memory limit is initially 2^30 on 32-bit systems and 2^62 on > 64-bit systems. > It is probably more valuable to describe what you want to do and there > usually are various ways of solving your task. > > It is often faster to handle a lot of data in one operation > > > 2011/10/10 David Vaughan <purpleblue...@googlemail.com> > >> Hi, I was curious about the space limit J has for its arrays, and ways this >> can be worked around. In some cases, you may want to do something equivalent >> to a loop in C that runs many many times, which I would only know to do in J >> by listing all the items and then performing a verb on them. Is there any >> other approach? >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > > > -- > Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur > Fornustekkum II > 781 Hornafirði, > t-póst: gos...@gmail.com > gsm: +3546985532 > twitter: @flugfiskur > http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming > > > Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans > > góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum > /|_ .-----------------------------------. > ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | > ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | > / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | > ( -. | `-----------------------------------' > | ) | (\_ _/) > (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ > `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm