Re: Memory hogs

allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:56:00 -0400 (EDT)

On 18 Jul, Claus Fischer wrote:
+-----
| Bernd Paysan wrote:
| : With a useful setup, tight memory is so far from ordinary operation, that
| : all this really should never happen. This should only happen when there is
|
| There seems to be a fundamental gap between computer science guys
| and numerics guys :)
|
| Numerics guys tend to use machines for all sorts of crazy things,
| which all too often involve memory-time-tradeoffs. (My pet example
| is ILU preconditioning where more space gives better matrix
| condition).
+--->8

<aol>
You should see what an engineering student with a copy of Matlab can do
to a perfectly good system... I get to see it every day.
</aol>

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