OpenEuphoria

Re: Matheval ... the next step ...again

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at ?m?il.com> Apr 23, 2008
• 559 views

Mike777 wrote:
> 
> Hi, Matt,
> 
> I really appreciate your responses.  
> 
> I'm taxing the system fairly heavily on this application I'm attempting
> to build.  At least I think I am.
> 
> Then again, maybe not.  I've got about 1400 lines in my file that I use
> to build controls (using newUIObj) and about 150 (so far) block files
> that are each processed through Matheval when the system runs.  I'm
> expecting the number of controls to double and the number of block files
> that will be accessed on any given template being processed of something
> around 800 (when I get done - it is a complicated set of documents).

You know, it might be simpler if you just embedded ooeu (http://ooeu.sf.net)
instead of abusing matheval like this. :)

> The issue is that I *think* I've discovered a memory leak.  Let's put
> it this way, my memory usage climbs at about 100k every second until
> it gets to about 1.5 meg, then it starts ratcheting down to less than
> 100,000 and then it starts all over again.  I didn't feel like letting
> it go to the point where the system required restarting. It normally
> runs at less than 10k in memory (per the task manager).

<snip>

> The offending line is:
> 
> (mySeq := mySeq),
> 
> If I comment that out:
> 
> -- ((mySeq := mySeq),)
> 
> then the system runs fine.  No memory loss.  Program runs to completion
> in about 1 second.

I'll take a look.  This doesn't seem like it should be happening.  Could 
you possibly post a minimal example that demonstrates this behavior?
 
Matt