Array Bug ?

[MelliGeorgiou]

Not sure if its a bug, or just a design flaw on my part.. But I've made an array of about 1000x1000x23. When I save this array, it exceeds 80MB. Is this normal?? I would have thought it would be a lot smaller! Since even a text file with 1000's of characters would only be a few Kilobytes! Have I misunderstood this or is this really a bug?

-Mel

[MelliGeorgiou]

Not sure if its a bug, or just a design flaw on my part.. But I've made an array of about 1000x1000x23. When I save this array, it exceeds 80MB. Is this normal?? I would have thought it would be a lot smaller! Since even a text file with 1000's of characters would only be a few Kilobytes! Have I misunderstood this or is this really a bug?

-Mel

[Nick]

For me, an empty array of text is 3.81MB.

10x10 is 1kb
100x100 is 40kb
1000x1000 is 3810kb

However, creating an array of 10,000x10,000 creates the message:


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Error
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This array would comsume more than 256 Gb of memory!
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OK
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Edit: sorry, didn't see the third dimension on your post :$
Edit 2: On a more comical note, they spelt "consume" wrong in the error message.

[Nick]

For me, an empty array of text is 3.81MB.

10x10 is 1kb
100x100 is 40kb
1000x1000 is 3810kb

However, creating an array of 10,000x10,000 creates the message:


---------------------------
Error
---------------------------
This array would comsume more than 256 Gb of memory!
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------


Edit: sorry, didn't see the third dimension on your post :$
Edit 2: On a more comical note, they spelt "consume" wrong in the error message.

[Joshtek]

1000x1000x23=23000000. If a number were 4 bytes then it'd be 23000000*4 which is 92000000 bytes or 87.738037109375 megabytes.

[Joshtek]

1000x1000x23=23000000. If a number were 4 bytes then it'd be 23000000*4 which is 92000000 bytes or 87.738037109375 megabytes.

[MelliGeorgiou]

aaahhh.. Then it looks like it is my bad.. lol I've found several ways of optimizing it, just didn't realize it would be so huge! -already got it down to 1.75MB! LOL

Thanks guys!

[MelliGeorgiou]

aaahhh.. Then it looks like it is my bad.. lol I've found several ways of optimizing it, just didn't realize it would be so huge! -already got it down to 1.75MB! LOL

Thanks guys!