Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] Memory leak

[ajf@afco.demon.co.uk (Alan Fry)]

Kevin Reid writes 31 Mar 1999 16:52:08 -0500

>Why does this eat memory?
>
>#!perl -w
>
>use Mac::QuickDraw;
>
>$col = new RGBColor (0,0,0);
>for (;;) {
>  $col->red($col->red + 1);
>}

I agree it does eat memory and I have no idea why it should do, though it
must be said an endless loop like that is a pretty severe test :)

Repeating 4 times 1000 operations of $col->red($col->red+1) in succession
resulted in the following figures for pointer space and handle space used
up:

        pointers        |        handles
        ----------------|---------------
        1900144         |        116672         after RGBColor->new()
        1965712         |        116992         after 1000 operations
        1998496         |        116992         after 2000 operations
        2064064         |        117008         after 3000 operations
        2096848         |        117008         after 4000 operations

For every 1000 runs either 2**15 + 16 K or 2**16 + 32 K of pointer space
was consumed. I don't know if this sheds any light on what is going on.

I have some evidence also that PtInRect() and PtInRgn() also consume
pointer space. The problem shows up with any window which is continously
busy handling clicks (a text editor for instance) throughout the life of
the script.

Alan Fry



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