Re: [Maxima-discuss] Maxima works with gcl 2.7.1

[David S. <d.s...@go...>]

I only use this for Maxima development. Right now, my main priority is to
get GCL >=2.7.1 working - somehow. If I could choose, I'd prefer a GCL that
simply doesn't use the hugepages, a performance penalty would be OK.

Am Fr., 25. Apr. 2025 um 00:55 Uhr schrieb Camm Maguire <
ca...@ma...>:

> Greetings!
>
> > Greetings!  Great!  This will be an interesting test case never before
> > encountered.
>
> > The issue is that allocating the minimum 1 page to each of the cell
> > types brings us to a minimum heap of 10Gb.  I need to meditate on how to
> > reserve memory beneath 2Gb in such a setting.
>
> OK I've figured out how to reserve low memory for code with such a large
> pagesize if this is what is desired.  But before I do it I just want to
> make sure it is what you want.  I do think it reasonable that the
> minimum heap be around 10 pages.  This would mean that all your gcl
> executables will be at least this big (e.g. 10G).  Perhaps that is not a
> concern, or perhaps it is.  Please let me know how you would like to see
> this work.
>
> Take care,
> --
> Camm Maguire                                        ca...@ma...
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