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Array 4 MB size limit

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- Nicolas Cannasse
- Damien Doligez
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    - Xavier Leroy
  - Frederick Akalin

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From:	Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@g...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Array 4 MB size limit

On 5/16/06, Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> > When you move to 64 bits, the tag word doubles in size, but the
> > amount of "other" information in the tag word doesn't- this means
> > that suddenly you have 52 bits of size, or 4T arrays.
>
> This is not quite correct, but a mere factor of 1000 doesn't matter
> much at
> this point :-)
>

And 640KB ought to be enough for anyone ;-)

Regards,
Markus

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