How much memory may a HPPL program use on a G2?

[Stefan Falk]

Hello matalog,

Thanks for your prompt answer! The stack is "clean", only a handful of objects, and always eaten by operators. The one thing that will eat up memory is a list (of length 1 to several hundred) of arrays of (1 to, say, 15, numbers). If I calculate 11 bytes for a real number, times 15 per array, times 1000, I calculate < 200 KB. I have one GROB object (quadratic, not higher than 64 pixel), and draw onto PICT. I don't even know where those 2 MB get occupied, not to speak of over 100 MB which should be available. Perhaps lots of RAM get consumed by internal temporal computation results, I don't know better.

The main question is: May a program use up (nearly) all available RAM, or is there some magic limit per program?

Best Regards,
Stefan