> Hi(gh)!
>
> On 16.02.2015 14:21, StephenS wrote:
>> Start an array [736][350][736]
>> ....fails on 32bit WinXP, run on 64bit WinVista
>
> Perhaps you should have tried Linux - I experienced a slightly better
> memory use under Linux when rendering scenes requiring huge amounts of RAM!

Linux won't help in this case: POV-Ray isn't optimized for parser memory 
footprint, and will try to allocate some 3.5 GB of RAM for that array, 
exceeding the 3 GB per-process user memory limit for 32 bit applications 
imposed by both Windows and Linux.

This really is a matter of 32 bit vs. 64 bit.

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