Big Stacks

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sun Oct 24 14:33:43 EDT 2010


Hugh,

Be careful. A 120MB stack with several JPEG pictures may easily measure a few Gig once read into memory.

The largest stack I ever worked with was 1 GIG on disk, containing thousands of pictures. That was... insane.

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On 24 okt 2010, at 20:12, FlexibleLearning wrote:

> I'm not starting a competition, but what is the largest size (in Mb) stack
> file you have ever got to?
> 
> Technically the limit is 4Gb assuming you have that amount of RAM available,
> of course.
> 
> Is the 120Mb beta test stack just returned to me a relatively small fish in
> the grand scheme of mega-stacks?
> 
> 
> Hugh Senior
> FLCo




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