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

[Klaus Weidner]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:57:32AM -0800, Peter Seibel wrote:
> 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.

Using "clisp" has worked well for me, and was faster than sbcl/cmucl on
some crude tests I did with less memory used. Probably that's because it
has a fairly simple but fast compiler, and the bulk of the typesetting
work seems to be macro expansion.

-Klaus