Limiting mma caching (??)
- Subject: [mg2613] Limiting mma caching (??)
- From: mvyver at ecel.uwa.edu.au (Mark Van de Vyver)
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 21:36:37 -0500
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- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Hi, I've the following query / suggestion. Is it possible to limit the amount of caching that mma does? For example: factorial[n_] := factorial [n] = n * factorial[n-1] factorial[0] = 1; With factorial[5], there are five numbers held in memory. In larger recursions this chews up memory quite fast. A useful feature would be to be able to limit mma to holding the last 'x' numbers in memory. Is it possible to implement such a feature, or would it have to be built in by Wolfram? Any responses appreciated. Regards Mark Mark Van de Vyver _____________________________________________________________________________ Mark Van de Vyver Department of Accounting and Finance Phone: (61) (09) 380-2510 University of Western Australia Fax: (61) (09) 380-1047 Nedlands 6907 e-mail: mvyver at ecel.uwa.edu.au Perth _____________________________________________________________________________