The tarball did survive the mailing list and I've just unpacked it and tried
the test on my MacBook. The problem does not occur on a MacBook
running Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6 but does occur on an iMac
running Mac OS Mojave 10.14.4.

I'll try it on some Linux VMs tomorrow.

Regards,

Rob.

> On 30 Mar 2019, at 16:50, Rob Arthan <r...@lemma-one.com> wrote:
> 
> I was doing some performance comparisons and found what looks like a bug in 
> Poly/ML
> when compiled with —enable-compact32bit. The problem is that ML code that
> runs to completion when compiled to use native 64 bit addresses, raises 
> Overflow
> when compiled to 32 bit addressing. The code is a lengthy proof search
> that explores in excess of 4,000,000,000 blind alleys. It takes about
> 10 to 20 minutes to find the proof when using 64 bit addressing
> and it takes 2 or 3 minutes before it raises Overflow when using 32 bit 
> addressing.
> 
> I don’t really know where to start with narrowing the problem down. I’ve 
> attached a tarball
> containing cutdown source that demonstrates the problem, but the mailing list
> software will likely strip it off, hence CC to David.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rob.
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