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Array Size Limitations

kvarnerexpress
Sep 19 2005, 09:58 PM
I'm writing a win32 console app and am about to implement an array of size 10,000,000 . Can someone tell me what this would do ? Would my memory be able to handle it or would it cause other variables to lose their value ? I may just end up writing the array to a text file and then just searching it when I need it but I would rather not if I didn't need to. Can someone tell me what the limit is ?
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SystemWisdom
Sep 19 2005, 11:34 PM
I think first, it would help to know the data type of the values in your array, but in any case, I don't think it matters as long as your hardware can support such extreme sizes (in other words, do you have enough RAM?)..

On an off-note, why are you using such large arrays? Wouldn't it be possible to seperate your data logically into several smaller chunks first, so as to work with smaller arrays?

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bsdpowa
Sep 20 2005, 05:56 PM
The thing is not about his RAM but the customers RAM.Not everyone can afford 1Gb of RAM just to be able to run a specific program.That size of an array is heavily not recommended because it may eat all of your RAM and process time so your computer may hang-up.Why do you need 10,000,000 anyway? Is a field of 10,000,000 elements even possible? What are you trying to do? Tell us a little bit more.

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