I'm implementing a recursive subroutine to find all the permutations of elements in a list of lists. You can look here to find out more on that subroutine.

Unfortunately, with the way the subroutine is implemented, the interpreter complains when a certain level recursion is reached. Inside the debugger, it complains when the 100th level of recursion is hit and exits("100 levels deep in subroutine calls!" is the error message).

It's not like the elements I'm using are particularly memory intensive. A conservative estimate would be that 2,000 characters are being pushed around at most at any one time. So it may actually be a limitation on the size of the call stack perhaps?

I'm running under Linux (one of the most recent ones, can't recall the exact version number) with 250 MB of RAM and generally 190MB free at any moment.

In reply to Re: Re: Allocating more memory to perl process... by Bamafan
in thread Allocating more memory to perl process... by Bamafan

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