[Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Re: Lisp vs. Java vs. C++ speed comparison time? [LONG]

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  I do not think these issues are related.  If you believe
you have found a memory leak in GCL, please post the details so we can
reproduce it and fix it.  There are no leaks sknown to us at present.

Take care,

Valery Pipin <address@hidden> writes:

> On Saturday 03 July 2004 01:42, Camm Maguire wrote:
> >
> <snipped>
> > All lisps here are the latest versions in Debian unstable.  GCL was
> > run in ANSI mode.  The machine was a dual Xeon 2.4Ghz.  We already
> > know that the relative GCL/CMUCL performance can vary somewhat by
> > machine, presumably influenced by cache size and cpu/memory bandwidth
> > ratios.  It is clear for example that CMUCL is doing a better job on
> > the memory layout/access times which predominate in the gc time
> > component.  
> Is that the reason why  I do not observe the memory leakage with maxima 
> computations  that done with cmucl implementation. In opposite, the gcl 
> implementation can consume so much memory that I force to restart the 
> x-session or even to reboot PC.
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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