[plt-scheme] Typed-Scheme Memory Issues

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Carl Eastlund <carl.eastlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> It might still be worth examining why TS uses so much memory.
>>> Type checking should be linear in space in the source code,
>>> though I suspect that this is not quite true when you use
>>> unions and other commutative/associative things that require
>>> extra work. But, type checking 3000 lines of code should
>>> never use 2GB. -- Matthias
>>
>> It seems it doesn't take that much space (if you use mzc)...
>> I guess there's something wrong between typed-scheme and drscheme.
>> Let me know what kind of debug I can provide to aid in your search for
>> a problem [I have no problems in sending you the files I am working
>> on, if you wish].
>
> Paulo,
>
> Have you tried writing untyped versions of the modules and
> compiling/running those?

For that I would need to change the code again to untyped and that
would be some work... which unfortunately I can't take the time to do
now.

> That would be a quick way to see whether
> Typed Scheme is involved in this issue or not.  It could always be
> some other artifact of your code causing the blow-up in space and
> time.
>

And it would happen under mzc?

> --Carl
>



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