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Originally Posted by Y_Less I did discover that very large global arrays can actually slow the compiler down a lot. Most of this speed loss will come from writing the blank arrays to the output file (file ops are generally quite slow) - I recently wrote a script which needed an array of 128Mb and the compiler ground to taking at least a minute to compile compared to seconds for the same script with a much smaller array.

Perhaps you could put a large #pragma dynamic directive then steal half the heap and point the array to it!