On 20-3-2012 20:59, Kip Warner wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 20:26 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
well you can try what happens if you run stock lua:
local t = { } while true do t[#t+1] = "just a bogus string: " .. (#t+1) end
at some point your system will run out of (virtual) memory or lua will run out of whatever its limits are
Of course. And the same could be done in C, C++, or really any language that supports dynamic memory allocation. We just hope that programs that are built from them won't do that.
sure, but mu experience is that browsers of email clients are way more demanding than tex when it comes to memory usage for tex it depends how much memory is permitted (there are some maxima that can be set in configuration files) ... i must say that I never run out of memory, although with doing extreme torture tests with many fonts one can come pretty close Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------