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#62 VPython quickly eats up memory

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nobody
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2003-02-17
2003-01-22
Viktor Ferenczi
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Windows XP Prof. Eng.
ActivePython 2.2.1 Build 222
VPython 2002-12-12

VPython quickly (about 1M/sec) eats up memory when executing EMWave.py, that can be downloaded from:

http://www.physics.syr.edu/~salgado/software/vpython/

Main loop don't seem to contain object creation. Circular references may cause this, but I doesn't know enough of VPython to figure out more. I'll execute any test scripts on request.

Best wishes: - Complex -

Discussion

  • Jonathan Brandmeyer

    Jonathan Brandmeyer - 2003-02-16

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    The mouse functionality had a memory leak due to passing
    values to Python on the heap instead of on the stack. It
    has been fixed in CVS. Now we pass values by reference.
    Not perfect, but it works well for now.

    Thank you for your report,
    Jonathan

     

  • Jonathan Brandmeyer

    Jonathan Brandmeyer - 2003-02-17
    • status: open --> closed-fixed
     

  • Jonathan Brandmeyer

    Jonathan Brandmeyer - 2003-03-16

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    Followup:
    The proper way to pass Python an outgoing object is through
    the FromAPI() constructor. asObject, asVector, and
    asImmutableVector are specialized versions of this constructor.

     
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