On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:12:30PM -0400, akalin@akalin.cx wrote:
> I'm running into cases where the 4 MB limit on arrays is starting to 
> become a problem.

ooops :(

> Lists are much slower and cause seg faults for me on 
> the same data set,

well.... exceptions can be acceptable, but segfaults?
Very unnice :(
Shouldn't be...


[...]
> Also, the fact that using lists crashes for the same data set is 
> surprising.  Is there a similar hard limit for lists, or would this be 
> a bug?  Should I post a test case?
[...]

Do you really need an array or other linear data structures?
Couldn't the problem be re-formulated to use trees instead (Map/Set)?
(hoping these limitations are not there...)


Ciao,
   Oliver