Question regarding Sbcl



Hello,

when trying to build Sbcl on a Linux system using clisp it seemed first
to work, but then, late in the build, I got

sbcl-1.0.52-source.tar.bz2
> cd sbcl-1.0.52
> sh make.sh "clisp"
Bye.
//testing for consistency of first and second GENESIS passes
//header files match between first and second GENESIS -- good
real    40m15.446s
user    39m16.092s
sys     0m51.738s
//entering make-target-2.sh
//doing warm init - compilation phase
mmap: Cannot allocate memory
ensure_space: failed to validate 8589869056 bytes at 0x1000000000
(hint: Try "ulimit -a"; maybe you should increase memory limits.)

where

sbcl-1.0.52> ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 30378
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) 3329364
open files                      (-n) 1024
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 30378
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) 4821120
file locks                      (-x) unlimited

So the error doesn't seem to make sense.

HOWEVER, anyway, the only point for us trying Sbcl is that we are
looking for an open-source Lisp (usable for Maxima) faster than Ecl.
And I got the impression that Sbcl can't be faster then Ecl, or
am I wrong?

If Sbcl is not faster than Ecl, then we don't need to install Sbcl,
and the above problem is moot.

Thanks for your attention.

Oliver