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

[Marc Battyani]

> 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.

Have you tried with LW ?
These days, I routinely generate a 1300+ page document with no problem with
LW.
It conses a lot and takes 15min (on a P4 2.2GHz laptop) but finishes

A profiling/optimization phase would be useful though.

Marc