urthermore, their performance begins to degrade when they get larger than 6K. Similarly, if a geode uses raw memory for an array, it is limited to the maximum size of a global memory block, again 64K.</P>
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For this reason, GEOS provides the Huge Array library. A Huge Array is stored in a VM file. All the elements are stored in VM blocks, as is the directory information. The application can specify an array element by its index, and the Huge Array routine will lock the block containing that element and re