[metapost] Fwd: problem with mpost number of strings exceeded

[Hans Hagen]

On 3/12/2015 9:01 PM, Denis Roegel wrote:
>
>
>     hm is it possible to have an example ?
>
>
> Sorry, it is actually a very complex document, and it is impossible to
> give a short example of the problem.
> However, I tried it on a more recent distribution, and it does compile.
> But I am still confused about
> what should be changed on the older distribution. Just for info, here
> are the stats on my recent distribution:
>
> Here is how much of MetaPost's memory you used:
>   17757 strings out of 21427
>   13840 string characters out of 89433
>   1491323 words of memory out of 3000000
>   681 symbolic tokens out of 16384
>   9i,71n,17p,197b,4f stack positions out of 300i,84n,10000p,200b,15f
>   532 string compactions (moved 6412359 characters, 3954253 strings)
> 20 output files written: base111.1220 .. base111.1239
>
> I'll check the stats on the older distribution tomorrow.

the latest mp's do mem management differently and at some point there 
also have been fixes for mem leaks with strings so maybe indeed a newer 
versions works ok

Hans

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