On Sunday, August 10, 2014 2:13:53 PM UTC-7, Nils Bruin wrote: > > maxima symbols are instantiated as lisp symbols, which are normally > interned. If you don't manually unintern them, they would likely be > immortal) >
Indeed, they are immortal. Changing this would mean changing common lisp, or at least hacking it rather badly. Both of the following loops see ecl run out of memory: for i in [1..10000000]: _=maxima_calculus("t%d"%i) for i in [1..10000000]: _=EclObject("t%d"%i) (you'll have to trust me or check yourself that in neither case we're forcing ecl to keep the symbols alive; CL semantics demand ecl to do it) On the plus side, that means we don't have to bother with solving this issue in the maxima interfaces. It's just intrinsic to maxima. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.