Upper memory limit

Siegfried Gonzi siegfried.gonzi at kfunigraz.ac.at
Wed May 15 04:39:39 EDT 2002


Bengt Richter wrote:


> Seriously, one might suspect you have rolled your own library of matrix operations
> using lists of lists as matrix representations, and then crunching on huge
> measurement sequences with numbers stored as strings and converted every time
> they're used, to estimate monster state vectors and covariance matrices etc.,
> and maybe iterating on top of that to make something nonlinear converge?

No, I use the Numeric stuff too. For example reading the binary files
and writing to files is done with the help of arrays.

Maybe I should roam around and wait for heat stroke in order to believe
what I experienced in the morning:

My first calculation in the morning took 40minutes (yesterady I went to
bed after the same calculation but with an execution time of 6 hours). 


S. Gonzi



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