[Numpy-discussion] numpy slices limited to 32 bit values?

Pauli Virtanen pav at iki.fi
Sun May 17 06:32:39 EDT 2009


Hi,

Sat, 16 May 2009 22:24:34 -0700, Glenn Tarbox, PhD wrote:
> Today at Sage Days we tried slices on a few large arrays (no mmap) and
> found that slicing breaks on arrays somewhere between 2.0e9 and 2.5e9
> elements. The failure mode is the same, no error thrown, basically
> nothing happens
> 
> This was on one of the big sage machines. I don't know the specific OS /
> CPU but it was definitely 64 bit and lots of available memory etc.

Could you file a bug ticket in the Numpy Trac,

	http://projects.scipy.org/numpy

so that there's a better chance that this doesn't get forgotten.

Thanks,
-- 
Pauli Virtanen




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