[Jprogramming] Fwd: Do "Out of memory" errors vary by J implementation?

[Dan Bron]

Can you post your commands?  It would be an interesting exercise trying to optimize for performance.

-Dan

Please excuse typos; composed on a handheld device.

On May 26, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Jeremy Smith <actuaryjeremysmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was trying to take 9 boxes and multiply them all together, storing the
> output in a single box.  The first of the 9 boxes contains 12 numbers, the
> second contains 11, and so on, so that the output of this calculation will
> be a single box with 12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4=79,833,600 numbers.
> 
> When I do this on Jgtk701 for Mac, the operation completes successfully and
> requires about 10 seconds.  On my windows machine I receive an "Out of
> Memory" error.  I'm using exactly the same series of commands.
> 
> Do these errors vary by machine, or operating system?  My windows laptop
> has 8GB of RAM compared to my Mac's puny 4GB.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
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