From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T00:32:31+09:00
Subject: Re: problem (?) with ruby handling 10^7 elements in one Array

gabriele renzi wrote:
> Anyway, it seems that ruby is *really* fast[1]  with up to 10^6
> elements, while it dies with 10^7.

This may be a dumb question, but could it be the physical memory of the 
device you're running the tests on?  10^7 sounds like about the range 
where I'd expect a system to start using swap space.

Ben