Re: Memory leak or flawed garbage collector
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- Subject: [mg120811] Re: Memory leak or flawed garbage collector
- From: "Alexey Popkov" <lehin.p at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:12:30 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: "Alexey Popkov" <lehin.p at gmail.com>
There is another old bug with non-deleting unreferenced Module variables
after Part assignments to them in v.5.2 which is not completely fixed even
in version 7.0.1:
In[1]:= $HistoryLength=0;$Version
Module[{L=Array[0&,10^7]},L[[#]]++&/@Range[100];];
Names["L$*"]
ByteCount@Symbol@#&/@Names["L$*"]
Out[1]= 7.0 for Microsoft Windows (32-bit) (February 18, 2009)
Out[3]= {L$111}
Out[4]= {40000084}
Ref.: http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2006/Mar/msg00170.html