Re: [Python-Dev] compile leaks memory. lots of memory.

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"FL" == Fredrik Lundh writes:

FL> while 1: compile("print 'hello'\n", "<string>", "exec") FL> current CVS leaks just over 1k per call to compile. FL> 1.5.2 and 2.0 doesn't leak a byte. FL> make the script a little more complex, and it leaks even FL> more (4k for a small function, 650k for Tkinter.py, etc). I have plans to spend a fair bit of time running memory/leak analysis over Python after the conference. I'm kind of waiting until we enter beta, i.e. feature freeze. -Barry