Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/21/2018 5:04 PM, Fabrice L wrote: Le 19 septembre 2018 à 15:47:07, Fabrice L (fabrice.al...@gmail.com ) a écrit: Le 19 septembre 2018 à 15:28:54, Alan Braslau (braslau.l...@comcast.net (mailto:braslau.l...@comcast.net

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-21 Thread Fabrice L
Le 19 septembre 2018 à 15:47:07, Fabrice L (fabrice.al...@gmail.com) a écrit: Le 19 septembre 2018 à 15:28:54, Alan Braslau (braslau.l...@comcast.net (mailto:braslau.l...@comcast.net)) a écrit: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:21:31 -0700 > Fabrice L wrote: > > > The problem is that the process take

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/19/2018 10:45 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: Metapost does not have a very efficient mechanism for keeping objects in memory and does not have a very efficient or real array mechanism, rather it uses hashed lists. fwiw, keeping objects as such in memory is quite ok, hashing is also ok, but

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-19 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:21:31 -0700 Fabrice L wrote: > The problem is that the process take hours of compilations, and > tests are not easy to do. Anyway, I will enrich my « minimal » code to my > « full » code in order to find the difference… and the problem. I will > update the thread as soon

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-19 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:28:36 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 9/19/2018 4:24 AM, Fabrice L wrote: > > > I do not think this a loop problem, because the same code runs ok for 15 > > 000 objects, but give an error for 18 000 objects. I’m working to build > > a minimal example. > So what do you do

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/19/2018 4:24 AM, Fabrice L wrote: I do not think this a loop problem, because the same code runs ok for 15 000 objects, but give an error for 18 000 objects. I’m working to build a minimal example. So what do you do with the objects? At the ctx meeting we've seen examples of graphics

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-18 Thread Fabrice L
Le 18 septembre 2018 à 03:11:40, Taco Hoekwater (t...@elvenkind.com) a écrit: > On 17 Sep 2018, at 21:17, Fabrice L wrote: > > Dear List, > > I’m running into a problem in Metapost (using Context of course!) > creating (I think) too many objects; I got this error message: > > variable instance

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-18 Thread Fabrice L
Le 18 septembre 2018 à 01:15:36, luigi scarso (luigi.sca...@gmail.com) a écrit: On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:18 PM Fabrice L wrote: > Dear List, > > I’m running into a problem in Metapost (using Context of course!) > creating (I think) too many objects; I got this error message: > > variable

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
> On 17 Sep 2018, at 21:17, Fabrice L wrote: > > Dear List, > > I’m running into a problem in Metapost (using Context of course!) > creating (I think) too many objects; I got this error message: > > variable instance identifiers exhausted The max value for that is 2^31, or about 2 billion

Re: [NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:18 PM Fabrice L wrote: > Dear List, > > I’m running into a problem in Metapost (using Context of course!) > creating (I think) too many objects; I got this error message: > > variable instance identifiers exhausted > > I have tried without success to find information

[NTG-context] Variable instance identifiers exhausted

2018-09-17 Thread Fabrice L
Dear List, I’m running into a problem in Metapost (using Context of course!) creating (I think) too many objects; I got this error message: variable instance identifiers exhausted I have tried without success to find information and a solution. Does somebody has a hint to solve this ? Thanks,