Re^8: Out of Memory when generating large matrix

Great, interesting post!

My coffee pot probably has a faster processor albiet with not as much memory?!

I took the screwdriver to our coffee pot, but the wife wasn't too pleased that I was going to rip it apart and compare the memory size to that of some of my microcontrollers. By "wasn't too pleased", I mean she grabbed a hammer and said if I proceed, she's heading up to my lab and going to start doing her own "testing" :D

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Re^9: Out of Memory when generating large matrix by Marshall (Canon) on Mar 07, 2018 at 23:57 UTC
Oh, geez... I might be upset too! I consider my coffee pot as "life sustaining medical equipment"! I guess I didn't mention it in my post, but there was a time when new engineers would get paid to learn new stuff. My boss knew that I'd kick this other program's butt and my program wasn't strictly necessary. The purpose of the assignment was to master interrupt driven device handlers, async I/O and HD, printer, magnetic tape and card reader performance characteristics. I was given other assignments after this one where I needed to apply what I learned from this sort assignment. My boss had a plan and a purpose for this assignment. As a "new guy", I didn't think about what was to come next. I just dove into this thing full bore and did the best that I could.	[reply]

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Re^9: Out of Memory when generating large matrix
by Marshall (Canon) on Mar 07, 2018 at 23:57 UTC

I guess I didn't mention it in my post, but there was a time when new engineers would get paid to learn new stuff. My boss knew that I'd kick this other program's butt and my program wasn't strictly necessary. The purpose of the assignment was to master interrupt driven device handlers, async I/O and HD, printer, magnetic tape and card reader performance characteristics. I was given other assignments after this one where I needed to apply what I learned from this sort assignment. My boss had a plan and a purpose for this assignment. As a "new guy", I didn't think about what was to come next. I just dove into this thing full bore and did the best that I could.

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