dogbert++ noticed me that this ticket exist. I totally forgot. OK, that particular leak is gone I think, but there were other (newer) issues. See https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/1280
Closing this ticket in favor of GH issue. On 2017-08-14 14:37:54, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > OK, this is still not resolved, but it got noticeably better. > > The issue is reproducible with the snippet provided in the original > report. > On 2017-08-11 10:01:42, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > There was some progress on this. jnthn++ > > > > I guess the most promising commit regarding this issue is > > > https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/commit/0d2e5f8cc0264eb495ea4f20f3a0c90d05d55710 > > , but there's at least one other commit that could've improved the > > situation ( > > > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/c59b986785fe17f53e1664af1aa60e785ff31624 > > ). > > > > I will test this again after we have MoarVM bumped (or sooner if I > > have time). > > > > On 2017-08-10 10:43:42, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > > After recent rakudo updates whateverables started having some > > > problems. At first I thought that they simply became slower, but > > > upon > > > further investigation it turned out that their memory usage was > > > increasing during the operation (which is most likely the reason > > > for > > > them to slow down during the execution). > > > > > > MasterDuke++ did a lot of investigation and measurements, so I'm > > > hoping to see his comments here. I don't have much to say, so I'll > > > just give a bunch of links. Please bear with me. > > > > > > Initial conversation and relatively golfed down code: > > > https://irclog.perlgeek.de/moarvm/2017-08-05#i_14973432 > > > https://gist.github.com/MasterDuke17/685b627a6a2749483dc5ec09c6a777a4 > > > > > > dogbert11++ reproducing the issue > > > https://irclog.perlgeek.de/moarvm/2017-08-06#i_14976177 > > > > > > (note that it seems like there's no memory leak, but the memory > > > usage > > > is growing) > > > > > > More: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-08-08#i_14987204 > > > > > > > > > I don't know if this affects anybody else, but jdv79++ was talking > > > about some memory issues recently: > > > https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6- > > > dev/2017-08-05#i_14973488