[pypy-dev] pypy array module memory leak?

[Berend De Schouwer]

I've replaced
a = array.array()
with
a = [0] * 10000

and it's faster, and doesn't eat all the RAM.  For those who care :)

On 22/07/2011 12:42, Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> The following program has constant (+- 10 MB) memory usage in CPython,
> but it quickly leaks massive amounts of memory in pypy.
>
> It simply assigns one bit of an array to another slice.  The length of
> the array remains constant (so there's nothing to delete from inside the
> program)
>
> pypy-1.5 (pypy-c-jit-43780-b590cf6de419-linux)
>
>
> import array
> import time
>
> a = array.array('i', 'a' * 100000)
> for i in range(1,100000):
>     a[1:1000] = a[2001:3000]
>     time.sleep(0.0001) # So you can go check mem usage.
>
>
> I apologise for the disclaimer
>
>
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