It depends on what you're doing with these lists, but you might consider using integers, not lists, to represent the bit-strings. The representation is considerably more compact, and you can use bitwise ops to manipulate them.
On Jul 20, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.sp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list members, > > As part of my application I create a list of lists of 1's and 0's > from an image file. > When the size of the list of lists is: 1055 x 1066 it works fine, > but when the size of the list of lists is: 4091 x 5023 then the > program aborts with the error message: > Racket Virtual Machine run out of memory: Aborting > > I've narrowed the error down to where I create the l create the list. > I.e. the error occurs during creation of the list and not during use > of the list. > I compiled the program with no debugging information using the > DrRacket "create executable" option and then ran the executable. > > Any suggestions of what I can do to get around this? > > Thanks, > Harry Spier > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
