Is pickle buggy?

[Brian Kelley]

True enough but do you expect

>>> "AAAAAA"

to be garbage collected or not?  eval('"AAAAA"') is doing exactly that.  That
is the behavior we are seeing so I don't think your example is valid in this
case.  For intern("AAAAA") it is because that is what intern does.  But intern
wasn't being called directly.

Moshe Zadka wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Brian Kelley wrote:
>
> > I don't get that behavior on windowsNT.  If I directly
> > intern(uniquestring()) then memory gets eaten extremely fast, not on the
> > order of hours but on the order of minutes.
> >
> > I'll let eval(`uniquestring()`) run for a while and see what happens.
>
> This program also eats memory quickly
>
> def do(l=[]):
>         l.append(1)
>
> while 1:
>         do()
>
> --
> Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il>
> There is no GOD but Python, and HTTP is its prophet.
> http://advogato.org/person/moshez

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