how to allocate more memory?



Raymond Toy wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
Then it means that these  benchmarks are not representative or (gcl is not  
for my PC configuration).
On my PC Athlon XP1800+ (256 RAM)  I observe the following facts.
1) Running the heavy tasks under maxima-gcl freezes PC. It's just not   
possible to do something else.
2) I have a number of cases when maxima-gcl was not able to finish the job 
because it eat the wjole memory and X-server was restarted.

All these can be avoided  with maxima-sbcl.

best regards,
Valery