[gambit-list] call-with-input-file memory use
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Sep 27 07:00:36 EDT 2007
On 25-Sep-07, at 7:06 AM, Nicholas Walton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any reason that reading a medium size file (10.9M)
> containing a fairly convoluted numeric list structure, previously
> written from Gambit, should take for ever using (call-with-input-
> file ...) and use an inordinate amount of memory. Trying to load
> twenty of these files in sequence blows my VM to 3.5Gigabyte before
> my Mac bottles out.
>
> If I change the datafile into a scm file by enclosing the data with
> (define x '.....) then the file loads immediately.
I tried to reproduce your result and couldn't. Could you post a bug
report, with data files, into the bugzilla system (http://
www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/bugzilla/)? In general it is better to
post bug reports there anyway to simply bug tracking.
Marc
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