Without knowing the details of what you are doing, it is nevertheless more
likely that your need for more memory is caused by a badly formulated
problem solution,
and that adding more addressable space in your lisp will not solve your
problem, but
only allow it to run longer and slower before halting. Maybe your should
share some info
about why you think you need more memory..
That said, I don't know if you are doing the right thing in GCL. Sorry.
RJF
Adam Majewski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use :
>
> wxMaxima 0.7.6 http://wxmaxima.sourceforge.net
> Maxima 5.16.3 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
> Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8
>
> I have found :
> "GCL is one of the oldest Lisp systems still in use, and as such has
> served as the basis for large lisp applications when computers were
> much more limited than they are today, particularly in terms of
> available memory. Considerable effort was therefore made in the past
> to keep the memory image as small as possible. As of the present
> time, the GCL team has not tuned the default memory allocation scheme
> to be more in line with modern systems. One can therefore often get
> significant performance increases by preallocating memory"
>
> I try to increase Maxima memory.
> I have not found any Maima commands so I try lisp :
>
>
> to_lisp();
>
> (room)
>
> (progn
> (si::allocate 'cons 10000 t)
> (si::allocate 'fixnum 200 t)
> (si::allocate 'symbol 100 t)
> (si::allocate-relocatable-pages 2000 t)
> (si::allocate 'cfun 1000 t))
> (si::allocate 'string 2000 t)
>
>
>
> What do you think about it ?
> How to find maximal values of avilable memory ?
>
> I have tried :
>
> (defun testmem (size)
> (ignore-errors
> (loop for i upfrom 1 collect (make-array size))))
>
> (testmem 10000)
>
> with no result.
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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