This program: #lang racket/base (printf "hi\n")
uses a lot less memory than this one: #lang racket (printf "hi\n") Does that help at all? Robby On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Nevo <sakur.dea...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi > My attempt on porting Racket interpreter to iOS has been for a while and > I've been able to run interpreter on both iOS device as well iOS simulator. > Right now, it runs perfectly on iOS simulator, but lack of satisfaction on > device. The reason is for those devices like iPad/iPhone or Android, the > memory for standalone application is always constrained, and even a single > "hello world" evaluation would easily put the whole app runtime to death, > per my test. In particular, here I've got some commented out "printf" code > compiled in for newgc.c, and trying to load a simple "hello world" racket > file to evaluate results in more than 30MB memory in use (reported by gc). > This is nothing for a desktop, but will kill itself easily in iOS which > usually requires the average memory allocation will be less than 20MB. So > I'm asking if there's some known compiling or runtime configuration which I > may not know to reduce memory usage, at least keep average allocation > acceptable for those memory constrained devices. Thanks for your suggests > here! > Nevo > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev