Roger just asks the OS for memory when he wants it and says 'out of memory' if he can't get what he asks for. If Mac OS freezes when he does that, bad on it.
Henry Rich On 10/10/2011 8:32 PM, David Vaughan wrote: > No, on my PC, it says 'out of memory' and doesn't freeze the computer. On my > Mac, it just tries to do it and freezes everything. > > On 10 Oct 2011, at 23:16, Raul Miller wrote: > >> It happens on 64 bit windows >> >> -- >> Raul >> >> On Monday, October 10, 2011, David Vaughan<purpleblue...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >>> Well it doesn't happen on my PC (windows), and they both have the same >> RAM, both 64bit. It never happens to me in any other language and has never >> happened before. >>> >>> ___________________________ >>> >>> David Vaughan >>> >>> On 10 Oct 2011, at 19:54, Michael Dykman<mdyk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, David Vaughan< >> purpleblue...@googlemail.com >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> That doesn't sound like a bug.. that sounds like you have hit swap >> space. >>>> Would it be fair to assume that you have less than 1e10 physical RAM >>>> available on your system? That is going to bite regardless of the >>>> implementation language. >>>> >>>> >>>> - michael dykman >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm