string issue or questions about intern

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Brian Kelley wrote:
> 
> So, does eval('"AAAAA"') intern "AAAAA" or simply not clean up the
> memory since it is not assigned to a variable?

Mhh. I compiled the current CVS (==soon to be 2.0) version without
cyclic garbage collection.

while 1:
  eval('"AAAAA"')

I monitored with top for quite a while, but there was no increase
in memory consumption. *Maybe* this got fixed?!

Peter
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