Thanks for the replies! I actually did something similar. I created char 1k[1024]. But I just wanted to confirm if there was actually any harm in doing so, especially when doing the same for the 1G array. Or if there was a better way of doing it.

I am mostly a Python/Java programmer. I just got started with C in my internship and I am trying to see if larger arrays will cause memory modules to consume more power. I have to run the...

Hello!

I am running some tests and I need to create arrays of specific sizes. I have scavenged many online tutorials/materials to try to find out how I can generate a 1-kilobyte or a 1-gigabyte array in C (or python) without much success.

Could anyone please help?

Gratefully yours,

atwinix