From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C918EBC0A for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 01:51:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.141]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l020pJTH026037 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 01:51:20 +0100 Received: from ppp14-213.lns2.syd7.internode.on.net (HELO rosella) ([59.167.14.213]) by ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 02 Jan 2007 11:21:17 +1030 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.12,223,1165152600"; d="scan'208"; a="66535120:sNHT20846903" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE : libsndfile-ocaml alpha From: skaller To: Erik de Castro Lopo Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, matthieu.dubuget@laposte.net In-Reply-To: <20070102065845.c6558b18.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> References: <20061222155407.ebe6c272.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <45923DC2.9000504@ujf-grenoble.fr> <20061227211046.656615d0.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <20061231080756.66e89d6c.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <1167535885.27287.66.camel@rosella.wigram> <20061231152305.694fd3e9.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <20061231110831.GA21198@furbychan.cocan.org> <20070101095114.911ca90d.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <4599205A.7050802@laposte.net> <20070102065845.c6558b18.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:51:13 +1100 Message-Id: <1167699073.13679.15.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4599AC87.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; sourceforge:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 bytes:03 erik:04 tue:06 space:07 space:07 alpha:08 memory:08 file:08 file:08 load:09 john:09 machine:09 On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 06:58 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > That file > is: > > 96000 * 60 * 60 * 8 * 4 bytes => > 11059.200 Mbytes => > 11.059 Gbytes > > Nobody is going to load the whole of that file into memory at once. Why not? That's tiny compared to available address space on a 64 bit machine, and personal computers have heaps of free address space. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net