On 8/2/2010 9:13 AM, Albrecht I. Schmid wrote:
>
> since I use perl for years, I like PDL very much. But during the last
> months it is apparent that the 2GB limit on pdls is starting to get
> prohibitive.

I'm confused about the limit on the size of piddles.

Could you give an example?  I was not aware that there
was any limit besides the OS limits (32bit vs 64bit)
and maybe the availability of contiguous memory.

> Single datasets exceed this limit and reverting to perl loops sort of
> removes the performance gain of threading (maybe), besides making coding
> ugly, and adding additional (programming) complexity.

If there is such a limit, I would consider it a bug
(at least on 64bit OSes).  If it is not reported, then
it cannot be fixed.

> Is there a way to enable PDL to handle bigger pdls? If not, I think I
> have to move on to Matlab.

Good luck there.

> Memory is not the issue, btw., 64 bit systems with 10s of GB RAM.

I don't have a 64bit OS to work with.  Maybe another
user with such an OS could comment.  BTW, you might
want to add the output of your perl -V and the OS
information for your platform.

Cheers,
Chris

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