POLY(1)POLY(1)NAMEpoly - the Poly/ML Standard ML implementation
SYNOPSISpolyDESCRIPTIONpoly starts the Poly/ML shell. Poly/ML is an implementation of Standard
ML written by David Matthews originally at the University of Cambridge
and maintained as a project supported by contributors.
OPTIONS-v Print the version of Poly/ML and exit.
--help Print a list of the arguments and exit.
-q Suppress the start-up message.
-i Interactive mode. Output a prompt for each input line. This is
the default if input is from a terminal.
--use FILE
Reads input from FILE as though executing the ML command 'use
"FILE";' before the ML shell starts.
--eval STRING
Compiles and executes STRING as ML before the ML shell starts.
--error-exit
Normally if the ML code raises an unhandled exception control
returns to the ML shell. With this option the shell exits on an
unhandled exception.
--with-markup
Include extra mark-up information when printing. This is only
suitable when Poly/ML is run under an environment that is able
to decode the additional information.
--ideprotocol
Run the IDE communications protocol rather than the normal read-
eval-print loop. Only suitable for running within a development
environment.
--script
The input is a shell script. The first line is skipped if it
begins with #!.
-H size
Sets the initial heap size. The size may be written as a number
optionally followed by K, M or G representing kilobytes,
megabytes or gigabytes. If none of these is given the number is
taken as megabytes.
--minheap size
Set the minimum heap size. The heap will not shrink below this
value.
--maxheap size
Set the maximum heap size. The heap will not grow above this
value.
--gcpercent percent
Set the target percentage of time that the code should spend in
the garbage collector. The heap sizer will attempt to set the
heap size to achieve this target consistent with the minimum and
maximum heap sizes given by the arguments and also consistent
with keeping paging under control.
--gcthreads threads
Sets the number of threads used in the parallel garbage collec‐
tor. Setting this to 1 forces the garbage collector to be sin‐
gle-threaded. The value 0, the default, is taken to be the num‐
ber of processors (cores) available.
--debug options
Set various debugging options for the run-time system.
SEE ALSO
http://www.polyml.org The Poly/ML web site.
Poly/ML Version 5.5.2 2014 POLY(1)
