From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T02:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: problem (?) with ruby handling 10^7 elements in one Array

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gabriele renzi" <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: problem (?) with ruby handling 10^7 elements in one Array


> il Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:11:04 GMT, gabriele renzi
> <surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> ha scritto::
> 
> DOH!
> 
> thanks Ben & Dan for your answers. 
> Looking it now it seem _so_ obvious to me that this must be related to
> the available memory.
> What fooled me was that trying similar code in other languages went
> fine. Possibly Ruby just uses little more space for Floats.

I think it may, since in other languages a float is
not always a "true" object.
 
> Sorry for not thinking a little more :)

Don't worry, we have all done it. :)

Hal

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