Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> Andrey G. Grozin writes:
>
>> 3. The platforms which will be used are: Pentium-4, AMD Opteron,
>> Itanium2 (32-processor SGI Altix server), SUSE Linux everywhere. What
>> lisps can run on all of them? What about 64-bit addressing - possible?
>> desirable?
>>
>
> Recently I have some experience with quite big Maxima
> problem on i86 32-bit system with 1Gb RAM.
> I've tried GCL, SBCL, CLISP and CMUCL.
> None of tis Lisps can allocate more than 1Gb of RAM
CMUCL can allocate up to about 1.6 GB using the -dynamic-space-size switch.
> on 32-bit system. Usually even less, just 500-800Mb.
> I'm only not sure about CMUCL - maybe it can allocate
> more than 1Gb. In any case you probably
> need 64-bit system with lots of RAM. I've heard
> people use GCL on 64-platform (IA64 ?) with really
> huge heap size. You have to build GCL with
SBCL has a port to x86-64 (AMD). I'm pretty sure it works.
Ray