Re: [Chicken-users] Segfault with large data-structures (bug)

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:06:41PM -0600, Jim Ursetto wrote:
> (bug found -- tl;dr see end of message)
> 
> Figured it out: you're exceeding the default maximal heap size, which is 2GB.

Speaking of which, I wondered about this before: why do we even _have_ a
maximum heap size?  This is arbitrary and awkward.  For instance, on my
trusty old G4 iBook, 2G was way more than I actually had (512 MB), while
at work and on my new laptop it's a relatively small fraction of my total
memory.

So on some machines it won't prevent the machine from crashing hard by
going out of memory, while on other machines it'll just get in the way
of doing large calculations.

If there's no good reason for an upper limit, could we get rid of it?

Cheers,
Peter
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