[Jprogramming] J's limit on space

[David Vaughan]

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. 

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David Vaughan

On 10 Oct 2011, at 19:54, Michael Dykman <mdykman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM, David Vaughan <purpleblues13 at 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
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