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

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "BAW" == Barry A Warsaw <barry@digicool.com> writes:

>>>>> "FL" == Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@effbot.org> 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 more
  FL> (4k for a small function, 650k for Tkinter.py, etc).

  BAW> I have plans to spend a fair bit of time running memory/leak
  BAW> analysis over Python after the conference.  I'm kind of waiting
  BAW> until we enter beta, i.e. feature freeze.

It would be helpful to get some analysis on this known problem before
the beta release.

Jeremy