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From: hall@nvuxh.UUCP (Michael R Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: The BEST way to sum a list
Message-ID: <274@nvuxh.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 19:06:32 GMT
References: <7559@megaron.arizona.edu> <1350018@otter.hple.hp.com>
Reply-To: hall@nvuxh.UUCP (23431-Michael R Hall)
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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In article <1350018@otter.hple.hp.com> sfk@otter.hple.hp.com (Stephen Knight) writes:
=jcp@arizona.edu (John Peterson) writes:
=> The discussion [comparing different ways to sum a list]
=> ignores a basic limitation of Common Lisp: call-arguments-limit. 
=
=A very good point!  I would be interested in the typical values of this
=system parameter.  Poplog CL has a default call-arguments-limit of 
=536870912.  Is this unusual?

Sun Lucid Common Lisp Development Environment 2.0.3 has 512 for the
call-arguments-limit value; I would guess that 536870912 is quite
unusual. [How about trying an experiment - call a function in Poplog
CL with 536870912 arguments and then call it with 536870913
arguments and see what happens...]
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