Re: [Maxima-discuss] Trying to accommodate GCL is keeping us from making progress

[Camm M. <ca...@ma...>]

Greetings!

Gunter Königsmann via Maxima-discuss
<max...@li...> writes:

> Gcl is faster than sbcl when running the test bench because sbcl
> compiles loads of stuff which needs time. I don't remember if sbcl
> additionally still lacks fast bigint multiplications while gcl
> supports them.
>
> Memory-wise both sbcl and gcl tend to mysteriously run out of memory
> in places in which both clisp and ecl only use small amounts of
> memory.

Just wanted to comment here that GCL's memory footprint adapts to
maximize use of the resources on the running system by default, and is
tunable at runtime using environment variables, (e.g. GCL_MEM_MULTIPLE,
see gcl-devel for details) Most rare oom situations I have encountered
stem from GCL trying minimize GC overhead and maximize performance, and
can be addressed using these variables.  Would welcome reports to the
contrary.

Take care,
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Camm Maguire			     		    ca...@ma...
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