On 08/08/16 13:13, Manuel Eberl wrote: > I've heard of negative thermal expansion in some materials, but I don't > think RAM is subject to it. (scnr) > > In a more serious fashion: I don't see how ambient temperature could > affect memory usage. I've run into "insufficient memory" and stack > overflow problems in Isabelle several times lately, usually sporadically > and irreproducibly.
The point is that a hot CPU runs slower. Memory management in Poly/ML works on multiple cores, and the runtime behaviour changes the characteristics of how the heap is cleaned up and resized dynamically. > Perhaps the times when 32 Bit Isabelle was enough for all applications > are indeed over. I don't think that this is the case here. Makarius _______________________________________________ isabelle-dev mailing list isabelle-...@in.tum.de https://mailmanbroy.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/mailman/listinfo/isabelle-dev