OpenEuphoria

Re: Large memory utilization

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jul 29, 1998
• 662 views

Robert Craig wrote:
>
> Paul Missman writes:
> > Yes, we are reading from the same page and on the same
> > planet. :o)  I'm really gonna put 512 megs in this
> > machine, and I'd like to have an 8 Gig virtual address
> > space.
> > Will Euphoria access all the 512 megs?
>
> The CauseWay DOS extender claims to support up to
> 4G - which is full 32-bit addressing, but I don't know
> of anyone who has tried to go anywhere near 512 megs.
> You are on the "bleeding edge" 
>
When I first got Euphoria, I initialized a single sequence of
300,000,000 bytes,
just to see if it could be done (also because I had a drive with 500
megs free).
It worked, but not all that fast - disk swapping and all - but it did
work.

Irv