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30 Jul 2024 00:17:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: long function with crash  
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Date: 1 Mar 2002 10:08:53
Message: <gp5v7u4bfvadeckgreqfkvuvdbecudb6fe@4ax.com>
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 17:16:17 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde>
wrote:
> As you can have up to 2^16 functions per scene, this should be
> sufficient for a count of about 2 million (or about 500000 on a 32 bit
> system). Unfortunately, then you have reached the absolute size limit. BTW,
> you need to do this on a 64 bit system - the functions will consume about 16
> GB of memory! ;-)

I have only PII 233 with 128 MB of RAM and even with this "cheap" box I have
reached another limit:

Parse Error: More than 65535 constants in all functions are not supported.

and I think it should be mentioned in documentation and warn anybody before
long coding process. Note different limit is mentioned in 6.1.6.2 : "There is
a limit of 65535 function blocks per scene".

ABX


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