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Re: Vector comparison. [message #37048 is a reply to message #37040] Thu, 20 November 2003 09:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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Craig Markwardt writes:

>> Now there you go! That's a solution I can
>> steal for my web page. :-)
>
> I think this is the same solution as Tom McGlynn. This is a classic
> solution by brute force *memory* hogging instead of compute hogging.
>
> If the lists are really large, then the arrays will be
> n_elements(a)*n_elements(b) in size, which can be pretty big. For
> example if each list had 10000 elements, then those 100 million
> element arrays would start to suck a large amount of virtual memory.

I limit all arrays on my web page to less than 100
elements. Most people don't need all that complicated
detail. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. 10000 elements!? Astonomers!

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