Why does exponentiation result in a memory leak?
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
        
        asked 1 year ago  
 
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The code
 
for i in range(17000000):
   10^(1/4)
input("Press enter to finish")
 
results in a 1GB memory leak.  Why?  In particular, why doesn't garbage collection deal with this?
 
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What about also indenting input ?!
dan_fulea gravatar imagedan_fulea (
    
        1 year ago
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I do not see any memory leak in Sage 10.3 under Linux. Memory consumption remains constant while the for loop is running.
Max Alekseyev gravatar imageMax Alekseyev (
    
        1 year ago
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