Carve fails on millions of polys

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. load two 2 million poly meshes into Blender
2. attempt a union Boolean


My machine has 8GB of RAM, but my memory appears to be tapped out when 
attempting this Boolean, and Blender hangs indefinitely.

Has Carve been tested on meshes, like scan data, that have many millions of 
polys?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 8 Aug 2012 at 2:50