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Re:Diagnosing Memory “Leaks” in Python by hydrogen18 on Monday September 07, 2015 @06:23PM (#10183315)
If you think you actually have a memory leak in python, the first thing to do is to recompile without the internal memory manager in python. This avoids the problem the author is addressing.
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Re:Diagnosing Memory “Leaks” in Python by jsmeaton on Monday September 07, 2015 @09:32PM (#10183803)
Can you expand on this a little more or provide some links that explain? What happens to memory if you remove the memory manager?
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Re:Diagnosing Memory “Leaks” in Python by hydrogen18 on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:43AM (#10185966)
It just uses the provided malloc & free implementations from the underlying C standard library.
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