RE: Why is there an arbitrary limit that Daffodil imposes so that arrays can't be bigger than 1024 elements?

2018-06-12 Thread Costello, Roger L.
18 10:45 AM To: users@daffodil.apache.org Subject: Re: Why is there an arbitrary limit that Daffodil imposes so that arrays can't be bigger than 1024 elements? So, a shape file that big may not be possible to parse right now. If you just think about the enlargement due to expanding the

Re: Why is there an arbitrary limit that Daffodil imposes so that arrays can't be bigger than 1024 elements?

2018-06-12 Thread Mike Beckerle
le Tresys From: Costello, Roger L. Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 10:18:07 AM To: users@daffodil.apache.org Subject: RE: Why is there an arbitrary limit that Daffodil imposes so that arrays can't be bigger than 1024 elements? Thanks for the explanation Mike! *

RE: Why is there an arbitrary limit that Daffodil imposes so that arrays can't be bigger than 1024 elements?

2018-06-12 Thread Costello, Roger L.
e.org Subject: Re: Why is there an arbitrary limit that Daffodil imposes so that arrays can't be bigger than 1024 elements? We certainly can enlarge these initial settings, as they do seem awfully small. And we can probably have a "unlimited" setting, but the point of this &qu

Re: Why is there an arbitrary limit that Daffodil imposes so that arrays can't be bigger than 1024 elements?

2018-06-12 Thread Mike Beckerle
We certainly can enlarge these initial settings, as they do seem awfully small. And we can probably have a "unlimited" setting, but the point of this "limited" behavior was in general to avoid the kinds of problems that come up with unlimited - as in "did you really mean 8 trillion is ok?" E.