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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
To: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>,
	"Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: MPS: bignums (was: MPS: optimized build)
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 10:15:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5E016D2B-A4A8-47A0-A679-7082E418C99C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzk6ytzo.fsf_-_@gmail.com>

7 maj 2024 kl. 09.13 skrev Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Mon, May 06 2024, Helmut Eller wrote:
> 
>> I had to disable the pidigits program because the MPS version ate all
>> memory and began to swap.  There's probably something wrong with
>> bignums.
> 
> It seems that bignums aren't freed because that would need finalization.

Surely we must be able to allocate bignums in a single chunk? It's the ultimate leaf value, no references to anything else inside.

I understand that you want to do the least amount of work now, and that's fine. Just ignore bignum performance, at least for now; it rarely matters. (We could even drop GMP if that would help the memory management but it probably wouldn't.)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-07  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-05  6:16 MPS: optimized build Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-05  7:50 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-05  8:05   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-05  8:16     ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-06 13:44   ` Helmut Eller
2024-05-06 20:28     ` Andrea Corallo
2024-05-07  7:13     ` MPS: bignums (was: MPS: optimized build) Helmut Eller
2024-05-07  7:21       ` MPS: bignums Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-07  8:15       ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2024-05-07  9:06         ` Helmut Eller
2024-05-07  9:27           ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-07  9:48           ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-05-07 12:17             ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-07 16:33             ` Helmut Eller
2024-05-07 16:38               ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-05-08 12:59               ` Helmut Eller
2024-05-08 13:08                 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-08 13:13                   ` Helmut Eller
2024-05-08 13:14                     ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-05 20:20 ` MPS: optimized build Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-06  7:03   ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-05-06 11:49     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 15:16       ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-05-06 15:17     ` Dmitry Gutov

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