From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/75253 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.comp.tex.luatex.user Subject: Re: [luatex] Itemize without page break Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:11 +0100 Message-ID: <4F68EC1B.9020005@wxs.nl> References: <1332113133.3358.43.camel@kip-laptop> <1332113351.3358.44.camel@kip-laptop> <1332205456.3358.248.camel@kip-laptop> <7448136C-5F9E-44D5-8D5E-DF40EA6C3E57@googlemail.com> <1332221482.3358.310.camel@kip-laptop> <46285150-558A-4D3E-B052-12DFBF7E6F70@googlemail.com> <1332222588.3358.311.camel@kip-laptop> <20120320145751.GA19233@khaled-laptop> <1332269984.3358.318.camel@kip-laptop> <4F68D9EF.30008@wxs.nl> <1332273580.3358.320.camel@kip-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332276292 15975 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2012 20:44:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , "General discussion of LuaTeX." To: Kip Warner Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Mar 20 21:44:51 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SA5vF-0007Fg-9g for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F50E10263; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:48 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id YnoMFoimtXS7; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA6D101E3; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB32D101E3 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:44 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id h3E-JM2lN8qm for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8A910194 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q2KKigKh017004 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:42 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 31-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:44:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: <1332273580.3358.320.camel@kip-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4667; longitude=6.0667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4667,6.0667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0RGLUIGA6 - 8907dad96dc7 - 20120320 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:75253 gmane.comp.tex.luatex.user:3492 Archived-At: On 20-3-2012 20:59, Kip Warner wrote: > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 20:26 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: >> well you can try what happens if you run stock lua: >> >> local t = { } >> while true do >> t[#t+1] = "just a bogus string: " .. (#t+1) >> end >> >> at some point your system will run out of (virtual) memory or lua will >> run out of whatever its limits are > > Of course. And the same could be done in C, C++, or really any language > that supports dynamic memory allocation. We just hope that programs that > are built from them won't do that. sure, but mu experience is that browsers of email clients are way more demanding than tex when it comes to memory usage for tex it depends how much memory is permitted (there are some maxima that can be set in configuration files) ... i must say that I never run out of memory, although with doing extreme torture tests with many fonts one can come pretty close Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________