>From: "Dennis (Gang) Chen" <Dennis.G.Chen@motorola.com>
>In ocaml, the max length of array is determined by the predefined constant
>max_array_length. Is it possible to build an array with length
>longer than this? I noticed that this constant is defined in source
>code sys.ml by:
>
>let max_array_length = (1 lsl (word_size - 10)) - 1;;
>
>Is it safe to modify this code to set a bigger value for max_array_length?
No. The formula really gives the maximum array size that can be
supported by the runtime and garbage collector (about 4M fields, or
16MB on a 32-bit machine). Maybe you should have a look a the
"bigarray" library, which was designed for huge arrays (of numbers).
Or you could get a 64-bit machine, they can handle more memory than
32-bitters anyway.
-- Damien
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