From: "kyle cronan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 12/3/06, Bill Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12/3/06, kyle cronan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (1<<$ARGV[0]) > > > > Just a thought - > > > > The argument you are passing is really the two's complement; so you > > are really passing 256M (not 28) to the vec statement. > > So what you're saying is I should be using C! ;) Yeah, I'm > implementing a lossy hash table and I want to create an array of 2^30 > integers in my program, so this is correct. I was able to get it to > work by using an array of 16 strings of length 2^26, then indexing > into that array as well as into the vector there. > > But I'm still wondering why this would happen? After all, the machine > has 16GB of ram.
You should probably use PDL : http://pdl.perl.org/ http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=587436 Jenda ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
