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Re: Reducing memory for big data sets

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• Subject: [mg57899] Re: Reducing memory for big data sets
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:34:21 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
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Hi,

no, Mathematica use (at least) 32 bit integers and 
there is no
data type for bytes, short int or what ever.

Regards
  Jens

"Maximilian Ulbrich" <mulbrich at berkeley.edu> 
schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:d8e5di$gr8$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have a big data set of 128*128*1000 points to 
> evaluate (a series of
> images, and I plan to use 256*256*1000 as 
> well...).
> When I read the data into Mathematica from text 
> files, MemoryInUse[]
> says about 300MB are used. However, my images 
> consist of only about
> 16.000.000 data points of 1 byte or 2 bytes for 
> other data sets.
>
> Is it possible to make Mathematica reduce the 
> used memory by storing the
> data in another format maybe?
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>