> On 17 Sep 2018, at 21:17, Fabrice L <fabrice.alpha@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> I’m running into a problem in Metapost (using Context of course!)
> creating (I think) too many objects; I got this error message:
>
> variable instance identifiers exhausted

The max value for that is 2^31, or about 2 billion (and some change).
Are you sure you do not have an eternal loop in your source?

The number of objects I have is clearly less than 2^31, so my problem is elsewhere then.

I do not think this a loop problem, because the same code runs ok for 15 000 objects, but give an error for 18 000 objects. I’m working to build a minimal example.

Best wishes,
Taco

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