Re: Compilation failure on very large module

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Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.9K bytes:
> Hello,
> 
> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:
> 
> > Here’s the crash with Guile 2.2.  I’ve added the module to the list of
> > modules that should be compiled and ran “make”.  You can see that there
> > are a couple of undefined variables, but I don’t think this should lead
> > to a crash.
> 
> Looks like the same problem as outlined here:
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-05/msg00033.html>.
> 
> Basically the compiler’s memory consumption seems to be proportional to
> the size of the input file, when I think it should be proportional to
> the complexity of the most complex top-level expression given that Guile
> doesn’t do inter-procedural analysis.
> 
> (The failure you get on 2.0 seems to be another story: apparently we’re
> hitting a limitation somewhere in the object format.)
> 
> Ludo’.
> 
> 

It is no longterm fix, but how about splitting up the largest
modules we have in several reasonable sized modules?
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