Re: [Bug-apl] Fwd: Re: Spell corrector - APL

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Xtian,

I am afraid that the information below is not sufficient to reproduce 
the fault.

I am pretty sure that under normal circumstances *)copy* should be 
fairly fast.

However when you are close to WS full then a memory allocation may have
failed unnoticed. In theory, no memory should have been allocated if the 
object,
was not found, but the object filter needs a little memory.

/// Jürgen


On 09/10/2016 05:59 AM, Christian Robert wrote:
> Bug report,
>
> while I tested that I got a "Killed" (out of memory) issue.
>
> while running my tests, the last function had an error. "⍵" was very 
> large at that point. (100,000+)
>
> I did at that point:
>
>       )copy Util type
>
> and the process/virtual_machine was completely stuck for more 10 
> minutes and I think I reset it.
>
>
> there was no ")copy Util type" (mistyped) the one I was really needing 
> was ")copy Util typeof"
>
> well hard to reproduce. Why )copy is using so much memory/cpu?
>
> Xtian.