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From: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Programming on Mac with large data
Message-ID: <14853@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 9 Oct 89 22:04:47 GMT
Reply-To: suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <1989Oct5.035739.4374@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.UManitoba.CA (Budi Rahardjo) writes:
>Hi, I'm going to start programming on Mac (probably SE).
>I have large data (300 KBytes) and I want to do some calculation
>on it. The problem is my program might be around 200 KBytes,
>and I need the data in the memory all the time (to make
>computation fast !).
>Any sugestion what kind of Compiler should I use ?
>TC 4.0 ? 

I have a Mac II with 2 MB RAM.  I have written and run a program
that needed a half megabyte array.  I used LSC 3.0 & mlalloc().
It worked fine.  I had a little trouble with the declaration
of mlalloc() originally - it had something to do with (void).
I don't have LSC 4.0 (yet?), but doubt that this would be broken.
I recall not being able to debug the program with the array at
its largest, but the debugger was extremely useful with a reduced
array.  RAM is cheaper again, and i'm looking at expanding my
Mac to 5 MB.  BTW, the program had a runtime of about a half hour.
Not your typical Mac program.
Stephen.