[slime-devel] setting heap size for SBCL for use with SLIME

[Faheem Mitha]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Dirk Sondermann wrote:

> On 06/02/12 21:32, Faheem Mitha wrote:

>> Hi,

>> I'm wondering if anyone knows how to configure SLIME to increase SBCL's 
>> heap size. I found the question 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7181183/how-to-configure-sbcl-to-use-more-ram-when-started-through-emacs 
>> but the listed answer doesn't work for me, namely, putting

>> (setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl --dynamic-space-size 1024")

>> in ~/.emacs. The default value is 512Mb.

> As long as you're not using slime-lisp-implementations in your
> ~/.emacs, setting inferior-lisp-program should work.

> If you're using slime-lisp-implementations, you have to modify
> this variable because slime ignores inferior-lisp-program if
> slime-lisp-implementations is not nil:

> (setq slime-lisp-implementations
>      '((sbcl ("sbcl" "--dynamic-space-size" "1024"))))

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm not aware of setting slime-lisp-implementations anywhere. I do have 
some third-party slime code in my .emacs, but it doesn't mention 
slime-lisp-implementations. How can I check whether I am using 
slime-lisp-implementations?

                                                         Regards, Faheem