[PD] symbol anxiety

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Phil Stone hat gesagt: // Phil Stone wrote:
>> bash's top command indicates that (on OS X 10.4), a megabyte is used up
>> for approximately every 32,000 symbols.
> So you can generate 128 million different symbols with a 4 GB RAM
> machine. :)

Not quite. Past 2 GB RAM you will get into segmentation problems... I 
don't know where exactly, as I'm still running with 0.25 GB. I think I was 
told it was somewhere between 3 GB and 3.5 GB... at least part of the 
address-space is reserved as kernel-space, part of it is reserved for the 
main executable and the dynamic libraries... fortunately, you don't have 
memory really specific to the stack, as stack+heap are one pool where heap 
grows from the start and stack grows from the end.

So you probably can't go much farther than 96 million different symbols 
unless you run it in 64-bit mode. :)

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