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Re: Maximum Variable Size in Octave
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Maximum Variable Size in Octave |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:43:23 -0400 |
On 4-Sep-2008, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
| I am planning memory-intensive calculations in Octave and/or Matlab.
| The Mathwork has published the following document describing the
| maximum variable size in Matlab on various platforms:
| http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech-notes/1100/1110.html
| Is there an equivalent document for Octave?
|
| For what it is worth, I compiled octave on a 64-bit itanium system with 32 GB
| of memory and allocated over 10 GB arrays.
If you use --enable-64 (with care to ensure that the libraries you
link with are also compiled properly for 64-bit indexing; it's still
an experimental feature) then you should be able to allocate arrays up
to roughly 2^63 bytes if your operating system will allow it. But you
can't read or write arrays larger than approximately 2^31 bytes since
no one has yet done the work to fix the I/O parts of Octave to be
64-bit aware.
On 32-bit systems, you can allocate arrays up to approximately 2^31
bytes, so that is 2^23 double precision elements. If you have enough
memory, you can allocate many arrays of this size, but any single
array can't be larger than 2^31 bytes.
jwe