Re: Another java.lang.StackOverflowError

[Wen-Chun Ni <wcn at tbcommerce dot com>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:42:11PM -0700, Chris Dean wrote:
> 
> That's because your JVM is running out of memory for a list that big.
> Just add more memory the the Java process:
> 
>     java -Xms300m -Xmx300m kawa.repl
>     #|kawa:1|# (require 'list-lib)
>     #|kawa:2|# (length (make-list 3000000 1))
>     3000000
> 
> Your tail recursive foldl works fine for me:
> 
>     #|kawa:14|# (foldl + 0 (make-list 3000000 1))
>     3000000
> 
> Was there another issue I'm missing?
> 

The OutOfMemoryError is not my concern. My problem lies in the
foldl-seq implementation, which results in StackOverflowError
very early. That indicates something like

   (let loop (....)
        ...
        (loop .....))

does not always work as a Lisp (GO somewhere) replacement.

Thanx!


Wen-Chun Ni