in reply to Numeric limits in perl

Obviously, you went beyond the memory limit of your machine. (If you have more memory on your machine, you can hold a bigger array.)

I suggest doing one (or more) of the following three things:

  1. Add more RAM. (This solution will help, but will not fix your problem.)
  2. Move the array into a database. (This sounds like a perfect job for a database, actually.)
  3. Find a better algorithm.

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Re: Re: Numeric limits in perl
by ergowolf (Monk) on Mar 25, 2003 at 20:34 UTC
    4.) distributed Computing

    You could write a simple server that hands out number ranges and recieves results and a client that does the number crunching. If you spread that over five to ten machines, you will get the solution much faster or even better add a database and find a better algorithm.
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