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Re: possible memory wasting in array handling
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Olaf Till |
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Re: possible memory wasting in array handling |
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Fri, 20 Jan 2017 10:15:23 +0100 |
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 03:16:44PM +0100, Olaf Till wrote:
> A more difficult way would
> involve to maintain, in ArrayRep, not only a refcount, but also a
> notion of the greatest slice referenced by any Array.
I'm more and more convinced that the problem caused by the described
behaviour is serious. Would you consider a patch?
(I have a test case, too. It's machine dependent and on GNU/Linux
involves switching to single user mode and turning off swapping.)
Olaf
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