[DGD] Dealing with huge objects

[Felix A. Croes]

"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Petter_Nystr=F6m?=" <jimorie at gmail.com> wrote:

>[...]
> My first attempt at this has simply been to allocate the grid as a
> two-dimensional integer array in a daemon type object. The problem is
> that this grid needs to be rather huge to accommodate for the world I
> want to build. My test case is using a 1000 x 1000 grid - 1 million 32
> bit integer values. When DGD tries to swap out the object holding this
> data, it crashes as it runs out of sectors. I assume this can easily
> be solved by increasing the number of sectors given to DGD at startup.
> But it got me thinking that my approach probably isn't so good to
> start with.

Rather than having a 1000x1000 grid, you could add a level of
indirection and have a 10x10 grid of a 100x100 grid.  Each 100x100
grid could be stored in a separate object.  That way, only those
parts of the 10x10 grid that are actually in use would have to be
swapped in.

Regards,
Dworkin