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Excessive memory usage
From: |
Milan Zamazal |
Subject: |
Excessive memory usage |
Date: |
10 Apr 2002 14:56:01 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
I try to use Lout for print-formatting database tables in some
application. I'm faced with a problem of an excessive memory usage of
Lout, unacceptable at a common workstation (> 100 MB). I can understand
Lout takes a lot (even extremely much, as I've experienced) of memory
when formatting a huge table. The basic problem is that when I split
the big table into several smaller ones, Lout's memory consumption is
reduced, but still about directly proportional to the size of the
*whole* data.
I'd like to know whether there is a way to make the memory usage less
dependent on the size of the data.
An example document can look as follows:
@SysInclude { tbl }
@SysInclude { doc }
@Document
@InitialFont { Courier Base 12p }
@OptimizePages { No }
//
@Text @Begin
@LLP @Tbl
aformat { @Cell width { 7s } A | @Cell width { 20s } B | @Cell width { 6s
} C | @Cell width { 4s } D | @Cell width { 8s } E | @Cell width { 9s } F |
@Cell width { 9s } G }
{
@Rowa A { xxxxx } B { xxxxxxxxxx } C { xxxx } D { xx } E { xxxxxx } F {
xxxxxxx } G { xxxxxxx }
< repeat the previous line about 200 times >
}
< repeat the previous table paragraph several times >
@End @Text
Can I do something about it? I use Debian GNU/Linux if it matters.
Thanks for any advice.
Milan Zamazal
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- Excessive memory usage,
Milan Zamazal <=