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Re:Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained... by tomkwong on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:34AM (#21450210)
Imagine that the size of the intermediate array is half of your computer's memory. It matters because by composition it reduces the memory footprint from 2x to 1x.
Re:Algebraic Structures: Things I wish someone had explained... by privethedge on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:50AM (#21450265)
Then it is 8Gb of pointers. I doubt it's practical to worry about such extreme cases.