>From Romano's comment, the 32-bit signed integer imposed 2147483647 byte sounds extremely fundamental. I fear no amount of mezzanine sourcery can conquer this constraint.
Perhaps one of the list guru's can prove me wrong? Regards Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 December 2004 23:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: Size? Romano: > I think that Rebol is limited for every operation to 2GB (2147483647 > bytes) because internal integers are signed 32 bit. > I think this is a limit for ports, any-block and any-string length > and index. If it is a limit on the length of a string, then my suggestion (poor though it was) to read the file and do a length? would not work. I don't have the patience on a slowish machine to try to create a string that long to test. I guess it would also make it hard to handle any file larger than 2Gig even with Open/direct (which is buggy anyway for other reasons, and so inadvisable). That would leave Steffen stymied for handling large files. I hope it isn't a fundamental limit. Or, if it is, it's one that a little bit of mezzanine ingenuity can work around. Sunanda. -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.806 / Virus Database: 548 - Release Date: 05/12/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.806 / Virus Database: 548 - Release Date: 05/12/2004 -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
