On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, chromatic wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:30, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>
> > > Andy, could you update to r18323, remove the -G's, and see if it
> > > now runs to completion on your Solaris box?
>
> > Thanks for the heads-up. I'm afraid testing will have to wait until
> > tomorrow. The rsync server at svn.perl.org is still down, and the
> > snapshot on svn.perl.org hasn't picked up that patch yet.
>
> Here's the patch (before I added comments); it should apply cleanly to
> anything in the past week or two.
Thanks. That indeed does help. Without this patch,
./parrot t/compilers/pge/p5regex/p5rx.t
would only get to test 185. Today, I made it to test 227. Granted, it
took 22 minutes to get there, but it did get there!
So, good detective work. I think you've plugged an important leak.
Alas, there are still (at least) two problems:
1. It's still leaking memory badly for me. It improved from test 185
to 227, but that's a long way from completing all 960 tests.
2. Garbage collection really slows the program down (I observed factors
of 10 difference in speed with and without -G), and I have a vague
unsupported suspicion that the slowdown grows faster than linearly with
the allocated memory.
Still, keep up the good work!
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
