[Python-Dev] RE: Painful death in debug build (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas@python.ca
Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:50:26 -0700

Guido van Rossum wrote:

The trick is to compile it to a .pyc file without efence. The compiler is vastly malloc-happy. Once you have the .pyc, testdescr runs to completion without errors using efence.

I figured that out after watching the process grow to 800 MB. :-)

Neil