"Felix E. Klee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Fill me in, what's that do? > > Well, that's what I wanted to know as well (I never used the do > construct before). So I let it run unattended and it started filling up > memory till a point where my machine started running out of memory and > programs started to crash. Luckily, I could hit C-g quickly enough to > prevent further damage. :) > > Now I know that it calculates Fibonacci numbers. I still don't know, > however, why it fills up memory. Emacs doesn't seem to work with > arbitrary precision integers and the do construct is no recursion that > fills up a call stack. So the memory needs are constant. > > Mario, can you explain this?
I'm not Mario, but I can offer a theory. When I ran it I evaluated it in the scratch buffer. It didn't seem to be growing very fast. Since there is a print in there, I think the memory was space in the output buffer for the printing. -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
