Raymond Toy writes:
> Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
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>>Andrey G. Grozin writes:
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>>>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?
>>>
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>>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
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> CMUCL can allocate up to about 1.6 GB using the -dynamic-space-size switch.
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>>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
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> SBCL has a port to x86-64 (AMD). I'm pretty sure it works.
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Right, I've tried sbcl 0.9.4 x86_64. It passes various tests
and in general look quite stable. Clisp also works on x86_64.
But I never tried all these 64-bit lisps on large problems.
To do so one need more than 1Gb of RAM. To feel real advantage
over 32-bit system 4Gb or better 8Gb is required.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov