Re: temporary() pitfall

[Paul van Delst <pvandelst(at)ncep.noaa.gov>]

Jaco van Gorkom wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Wayne. I gained some new insights here.
> 
> > The memory that you save with TEMPORARY() comes at the cost of losing
> > the original array contents.   If you are worried about losing the
> > result of a long computation because of hitting a memory limit, then I
> > would SAVE the array to disk first.  (I  find that programs that use a
> > lot of TEMPORARY calls are also difficult to debug.)
> 
> I agree that losing the original contents is the price that I was
> willing to pay. I guess I was just hoping that someone here would come
> up with another secret and magical keyword to ROUTINE_NAMES(), to
> recover that which seems lost forever. Always keep hoping for a
> miracle...
> 
> SAVEing to disk is of course the best option,

Hmm, why not re-design the code to work in a smaller memory footprint? (E.g. using smarter, memory
efficient algorithms for doing linear algebra based on the type of matrix; sparse, banded, dense,
etc.) The up front cost will be high (wrt time at least), but at least you'll know the code has a
better chance of working when your dataset/data flow increases 100-fold.

jsut me musing and mucking about.

paulv

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