[Gcl-devel] Re: 266,000,000 thank yous

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for further expanding the possible space of conses in 32-bit x86
> GCL 2.7.0 to over 266 million of them!

Glad to hear it is useful!

> 
> Bob
> 
> P. S.  Below is a reproducible-here-anyway bug, probably in gbc.  On
> elgin, the last form runs for a quite a few minutes and drives the load
> average above 3 before the error message is printed, probably due to a
> lot of paging.
> 

Should be fixed now -- thanks so much for the report!

Take care,

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.7.0 ANSI    Aug 11 2006 13:26:05
> ...
> >(setq si::*notify-gbc* t)
> 
> T
> 
> >(time (si::allocate 'cons 520000 t))
> [GC for 360 RELOCATABLE-BLOCKS pages..(T=4).GC finished]
> 
> real time       :     14.790 secs
> run-gbc time    :      0.500 secs
> child run time  :      0.000 secs
> gbc time        :      0.040 secs
> T
> 
> >(/ (* 520000 4096) 8)
> 
> 266240000
> 
> >(time (setq foo (make-list 266240000) bar nil))
> [GC for 520000 CONS pages..(T=915).GC finished]
> 
> Error in EVAL [or a callee]: Cannot assign to the constant NIL.
> 
> Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
> Broken at ERROR.  Type :H for Help.
>  1 (Continue) Return to top level.
> dbl:>>
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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