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RE: 64 bit octave
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
RE: 64 bit octave |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:47:45 -0600 |
On 9-Feb-2001, Thoai Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
| 64 bits OS means you can handle a file bigger than 2.1
| Gb ... that's is the limit of 32 bits file system.
Hmm. I think you are confusing operating systems and file systems.
What if a "64-bit OS" had a "32-bit filesystem" or a what if a "32-bit
OS" had a "64-bit filesystem"?
| If
| Octave can read a file > 2.1 Gb then it's better than
| Matlab.
In all ways, or just this one? :-) I suppose it depends on whether
the open system call succeeds, and that really depends on the
underlying OS and filesystem more than Octave internals, I think.
Now, whether you could actually do anything useful with a file that
large in an interpreted environment like Octave or Matlab depends a
lot on exactly what it is you are trying to do. Using for loops to
look at all the bytes individually is probably going to be kind of
slow...
| BTW, is there
| a unix command in Sun that I can split the file in
| half ???
Uh, maybe split(1)?
jwe
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