On 7/17/14, Andy Goth <andrew.m.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 7/17/2014 3:22 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: >> in terms of memory use, it seems to be on par with lua, and lua is >> the lightest-memory interpreter i've yet run through valgrind. Most >> of them individually leak more memory than lua and s2 allocate >> combined. > > Sorry to drag this away from Fossil and TH1 and S2, but I suggest > running Tcl in Valgrind sometime. It's very, very good about memory > usage.
+1 I'd be _very_ interested if some contrary conclusion was reached (as would the Tcl core team). > Aside from interim development versions, the only "leak" I've found is > a performance optimization in which it doesn't bother free()ing > everything on exit, much the same way Fossil doesn't clean up because > it knows the operating system will do it faster and better. There's a > compile-time option set via preprocessor to make it go back to the old > behavior of tidying up all allocations at the end. > > This is very important to me because I frequently use Tcl for testing > other code written in C and Fortran and such, and I need Valgrind to > spot my errors without being mired in the test harness. > > http://wiki.tcl.tk/3840 > > - -- > Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTyDQYAAoJELtYwrrr47Y4iBkH/j3cBBloLwFAxigrX8xhTydy > I1c++agxS/veY0kdWoXqbnRYTluHXGlLy4JetWEOk3PmkgNa3EBZRsVtuUSRiqdl > gpD1R0kP+7izLDlZuPKXWBjQNtdeAslSTcyuIFQVWTfHa1gFKT12GQ5oKuwo98yi > Zl2uxhq6vgZK4cX3zg/S2SH2QA4avdMFJRxmBUXeBil6wqpr/oYKznD4kxtmTsEy > zSysbC6Jz0l6dIbh+whAgNxhhf6QroItCwqCHtfeWBHkx05KCzUddXKizX72ggrz > 0aIu1loCz+Kb5v7JHnG8n8lzySTtKIBb0idUW5t1WCTmgJHyPrdLDvgmYrzOgBY= > =XwRk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
