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by rossant 3820 days ago
Unfortunately our users can't afford fancy computers with hundreds of GB of RAM. They often need to process entire datasets on laptops with 16GB of RAM but 1TB+ GB of disk space. Of course with 200 GB of RAM with have no problem at all...

Also, as I said, the 100,000 x 1000 example is a quite optimistic one, we do have cases now with 100,000,000 x 10,000 arrays, and this is only going to increase in the months to come with the new generation of devices.