[Jprogramming] J's limit on space

[David Vaughan]

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 <purpleblues13 at 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 <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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