From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Mon Nov 14 15:09:21 1994
Subject: Octave question
From: Juhana K Kouhia <kouhia at nic dot funet dot fi>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu, kouhia@nic.funet.fi
Date: 	Mon, 14 Nov 1994 23:09:03 +0200


I have a question:

If I have a one-dimensional signal data with the size 400 Mbytes,
then what are my choises to operate with it:
 (i) I have to split the data;
 (ii) Octave has a virtual memory on its own and I don't have
      to worry about the splitting.

If I split the data, then my easily programmed processing programs
will become hard to program.

If possible, I would like to have the virtual memory system in Octave
i.e. the all big files, the user see as one big array or such.
There could be several user selectable models to do the virtual memory
depending on what kind of data the user have (1d, 2d) and in what
order they are processed (stream or random access).

I'm making a kernel for my own music program which provides such
virtual memory system allowing the processing of the big audio files
and compositions. And I had this thought about using Octave (as a free
software) as a kernel. Matlab could be other choise, but I know
nothing about it either.

Juhana Kouhia