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Re: Uniform vector lengths -- how long?
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Kevin Ryde |
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Re: Uniform vector lengths -- how long? |
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:26:35 +1000 |
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Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:
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> Is it OK for their lengths to be limited to a fixnum?
I'd think so.
> What if someone wants to allocate a multi-GB s8 array on a 64-bit
> machine,
Yes, lifting it from an int to a long (or a size_t) would ensure
64-bits can be fully used. (Eg. on alpha, I think.)