On Sunday, August 10, 2014 2:13:53 PM UTC-7, Nils Bruin wrote:
>
> maxima symbols are instantiated as lisp symbols, which are normally
> interned. If you don't manually unintern them, they would likely be
> immortal)
>
Indeed, they are immortal. Changing this would mean changing common lisp,
or at least hacking it rather badly. Both of the following loops see ecl
run out of memory:
for i in [1..10000000]:
_=maxima_calculus("t%d"%i)
for i in [1..10000000]:
_=EclObject("t%d"%i)
(you'll have to trust me or check yourself that in neither case we're
forcing ecl to keep the symbols alive; CL semantics demand ecl to do it)
On the plus side, that means we don't have to bother with solving this
issue in the maxima interfaces. It's just intrinsic to maxima.
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