Re: [Chicken-users] Large vector

[John Cowan]

Mark Voortman scripsit:

> I have an urgent need to create a vector with a capacity of over 100
> million elements. However, I get an out of range exception when I call
> make-array since the numbers of elements is limited to 16777215. Where can
> I increase this limit?

The simplest way is to move to a 64-bit computer, where the limit is
2^62 rather than 2^30.  Failing that, you can use a vector of
vectors and write your own (trivial) getter and setter procedures.

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