On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> It turned out that the acquiring company is very generous with their > developers, outfitting them with the very latest and fastest Macs loaded > with maximum RAM and the fastest HDDs on the market. I hit the opposite of this during my dissertation. The Fortran compiler I was using (absoft?) was based on the Cray compiler (yes, an odd adaptation). Anyway, I was working with huge matrices on a mathematically intractable problem. This was probably in '07 o '98. The source of the crashes finally turned out to be my allocation of a dynamic array. I had more memory (512mb, iirc) than any of the developers so they had never tried an array that was larger than 256mb. Turns out that such arrays were bit addressed, and I had surpassed 2^31 bits . . . I was bemused by accidentally tripping over a situation where 32 bit addressing was not enough . . . Fixed dimension arrays were faster, anyway . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
