>>>>> "Valery" == Valery Pipin <pip at iszf.irk.ru> writes:
Valery> On Monday 05 June 2006 23:15, Fabrizio Caruso wrote:
>> How can I allocate more memory in Maxima?
>>
Valery> Is it under gcl?
Valery> If you have a choice then you may consider to try it under sbcl (or cmucl)
Valery> They are faster and more intelligent about memory.
The last benchmarks I saw indicated that gcl was at least as fast as
sbcl/cmucl; perhaps even faster.
SBCL has a hardwired limit for the heap size. I don't know what that
limit is. CMUCL has a hardwired maximum heap size of around 1.5 GB or
so, but defaults to 256 MB. You can change the heap space using the
-dynamic-space-size <MB> switch. However, I don't think you can
access that using the standard maxima script. Perhaps the maxima
scripts should pass on any option it doesn't know about to the
underlying lisp (if it doesn't already do that).
Ray