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Raymond Toy wrote:
> even for people who would never use these routines.  (I'll try to
> measure how much more memory soon.)

For the record, here is what (ROOM) reports for CMUCL/ppc before and
after compiling and loading lapack:

> Dynamic Space Usage:        4,665,776 bytes (out of  256 MB).
> Read-Only Space Usage:     37,250,280 bytes (out of  128 MB).
> Static Space Usage:         3,972,936 bytes (out of  128 MB).
> Control Stack Usage:            2,432 bytes (out of  128 MB).
> Binding Stack Usage:               48 bytes (out of  128 MB).

> Dynamic Space Usage:       14,106,856 bytes (out of  256 MB).
> Read-Only Space Usage:     37,250,280 bytes (out of  128 MB).
> Static Space Usage:         3,972,936 bytes (out of  128 MB).
> Control Stack Usage:            2,432 bytes (out of  128 MB).
> Binding Stack Usage:               48 bytes (out of  128 MB).

So adding LAPACK only added 10MB of additional memory.

For clisp, we have:

> Bytes permanently allocated:       91168
> Bytes currently in use:          6433368
> Bytes available until next GC:    305719

> Bytes permanently allocated:       91168
> Bytes currently in use:          7220324
> Bytes available until next GC:    414646

I think that means 1MB was added, which doesn't seem so much.

Ray