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On 2010-04-29 18:14:55 +0100, Peter Keller said:

> 546MB up to 1.640GB.
> 
> Now this needed memory for which I can easily account!
> 
> That is a lot of memory to keep resident and perform churn on and hence
> why I'm very paranoid about consing or calling make-array.  I use other
> libraries and things and who knows what their memory usages are. But
> at the scaling levels I'm desiring, I have to pay attention to it.

10 years ago this was a lot of memory.  Now it's small change.  50 or 
100G is something to think about, but less than 4 doesn't count for 
much unless you're planning on some vast number of instances.