[cl-typesetting-devel] Memory problems generating big docs?

[Peter Seibel]

Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:

> When I try to generate a PDF of my whole book ~150,000 words/400 pages
> in Allegro (Enterprise 6.2 on GNU/Linux) I completely run out of
> memory--Allegro can't get any more from the system. I'm going to mail
> support at Franz for help debugging this but I was wondering if anyone
> here had any ideas about a) what I can change in my usage of
> cl-typesetting to use less memory b) changes that can be made to
> cl-typesetting itself to use less memory.

FWIW, I tried using SBCL 0.8.16 (after fixing a few compilation
problems in cl-typesetting--patches to follow) and, while a bit slower
than Allegro, it did manage to generate a 412 page PDF of my book.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

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