[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] Daily reference leaks (b78574cb00ab): sum=1120 (original) (raw)

Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 16:57:05 EST 2016


On 2016-11-19 2:46 PM, Kevin Modzelewski wrote:

Hi Yury, you may be interested in some leak-finding code that wrote for Pyston. It uses the GC infrastructure to show you objects that were directly leaked, ignoring indirect leaks -- ie objects that were only leaked because they were referenced by a leaked object. It can often give you a very small list of objects to look into (depending on how many non-gc objects were leaked). If you're interested I can try porting it to CPython.

https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/blob/master/fromcpython/Modules/gcmodule.c#L894

Hi Kevin,

Nice work! Anything to help to find refleaks is welcome, it's really a painful process sometimes. As for porting it to CPython - I don't see why not. We can add this new API to debug builds only, at least in the beginning.

Thank you! Yury



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