trouble with LAPACK + SBCL



On 4/13/09, Valery Pipin <pip at iszf.irk.ru> wrote:

> elif [ "$MAXIMA_LISP" = "sbcl" ]; then
>     exec "sbcl" --dynamic-space-size 2560 ....

> This works!

OK, great. At this point it appears the problem is mostly on
SBCL's side so I'm not going to try to put any changes into the
5.18 branch for it.

> I'm remembering that I already stepped to this rake somewhere
> half-year ago. While the given option indeed helps to compile lapack, the
> computations with large bigfloats matrices can be a problem still (the same
> issue -  not enough memory, heap exhausted, welome to ldb). Migrating to 64
> bit solved my problems that time.

OK, thanks for the information.

>> I wonder if we should invent a way to pass options to Lisp.
> This woud be nice!

Maybe something like -Xfoo passes -foo to Lisp?
(Likewise --Xfoo passes --foo to Lisp.)

best

Robert Dodier