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Re: Severe memleak in sequence expressions?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Severe memleak in sequence expressions? |
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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:23:30 -0500 |
> Hi all,
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> I think there is a severe memleak in bash.
It's not a memory leak. It might reveal a sub-optimal memory allocation
pattern -- asking for an array with that many strings is going to gobble
a lot of memory -- but it's not a leak in the sense that bash loses
track of an allocated chunk.
Chet
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