Hi, all. I'm back! I've got an enormous array that I need to store,
preferably in RAM. (It's iterated a bunch.)
I have 16 Gb on my machine, and at any time, about 12 Gb is free.
I'd like to be able to use about 10 Gb for this program. But when I
try to use more than about 800 Mb, I get "Memory allocation failed."
(I'm using new long[], not malloc(), but I do free() variables
because the garbage collector was having trouble keeping up with
me.) Is there a switch I can mark to say that the runtime might have
to deal with lots of memory?
Incidentally,
Win7 x64, Intel I7 @4.4 GHz, compiling with dmd -O -release -inline.

Thanks,
Charles

On 6/17/11 12:32 AM, Charles McAnany wrote:
> Win7 x64, Intel I7 @4.4 GHz, compiling with dmd -O -release -inline.

Regardless whether you are running on x86 or x86_64, DMD is only able to create 32 bit binaries on Windows.

David

Hm. I'm not too good on architecture - does that mean it's impossible for an x32 program to have access to more memory? Is there, maybe, an x64 C library that I could use to abstract the memory out (Just a huge array wrapper, basically)? Or, that failing, does GCC automatically generate x64 code on an x64 machine? I could probably write the procedure in C... but yuck.

David Nadlinger Wrote:

> On 6/17/11 12:32 AM, Charles McAnany wrote:
> > Win7 x64, Intel I7 @4.4 GHz, compiling with dmd -O -release -inline.
> 
> Regardless whether you are running on x86 or x86_64, DMD is only able to create 32 bit binaries on Windows.
> 
> David

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Charles McAnany <mcanance@rose-hulman.edu> wrote:
> Hm. I'm not too good on architecture - does that mean it's impossible for an x32 program to have access to more memory?
> Is there, maybe, an x64 C library that I could use to abstract the memory out (Just a huge array wrapper, basically)? Or, that failing, does GCC automatically generate x64 code on an x64 machine? I could probably write the procedure in C... but yuck.
>
> David Nadlinger Wrote:
>
>> On 6/17/11 12:32 AM, Charles McAnany wrote:
>> > Win7 x64, Intel I7 @4.4 GHz, compiling with dmd -O -release -inline.
>>
>> Regardless whether you are running on x86 or x86_64, DMD is only able to create 32 bit binaries on Windows.
>>
>> David
>

I don't know why you can't allocate more than 800mb but if you want to get around this by caching in other processes' memory then I can recommend memcache: http://memcached.org/