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High memory usage when substituting variables

I need to make a lot of variable substitutions in multivariate polynomials. However, I only need to store one polynomial at a time and I only need to make one substitution at a time. Nonetheless sage uses a lot of memory. This memory is not freed until sage is killed.

Here is a small example:

var("x y z")

# A polynomial in three variables (The Trott quartic):
poly=12^2*(x^4+y^4)-15^2*(x^2+y^2)*z^2+350*x^2*y^2+9^2*z^4
poly=poly.polynomial(ZZ)

pnt=[1,2,3]

# Makes a certain variable subsitution, defined by pt, n times.
def test_subs(f,pt,n):
    for i in xrange(n):
        temp=f.substitute(x=x+pt[0]*z,y=y+pt[1]*z,z=pt[2]*z)
        #temp=f(x=x+pt[0]*z,y=y+pt[1]*z,z=pt[2]*z) #This also uses a lot of memory.

When i run test_subs(poly,pnt,100000) I can see the memory usage ticking up from around 1% up to nearly 2%. if I then run the function again the ticking starts at 2%, and so on. In the real problem I have my program eventually fills up all memory and then crashes.

Can you see why this is happening and do you know how to prevent it from happening?

High memory usage when substituting variables

I need to make a lot of variable substitutions in multivariate polynomials. However, I only need to store one polynomial at a time and I only need to make one substitution at a time. Nonetheless sage uses a lot of memory. This memory is not freed until sage is killed.

Here is a small example:

var("x y z")

# A polynomial in three variables (The Trott quartic):
poly=12^2*(x^4+y^4)-15^2*(x^2+y^2)*z^2+350*x^2*y^2+9^2*z^4
poly=poly.polynomial(ZZ)

pnt=[1,2,3]

# Makes a certain variable subsitution, defined by pt, n times.
def test_subs(f,pt,n):
    for i in xrange(n):
        temp=f.substitute(x=x+pt[0]*z,y=y+pt[1]*z,z=pt[2]*z)
        #temp=f(x=x+pt[0]*z,y=y+pt[1]*z,z=pt[2]*z) #This also uses a lot of memory.

When i run test_subs(poly,pnt,100000) I can see the memory usage ticking up from around 1% up to nearly 2%. if I then run the function again the ticking starts at 2%, and so on. In the real problem I have my program eventually fills up all memory and then crashes.

Can you see why this is happening and do you know how to prevent it from happening?

High memory usage when substituting variables

I need to make a lot of variable substitutions in multivariate polynomials. However, I only need to store one polynomial at a time and I only need to make one substitution at a time. Nonetheless sage uses a lot of memory. This memory is not freed until sage is killed.

Here is a small example:

var("x y z")

# A polynomial in three variables (The Trott quartic):
poly=12^2*(x^4+y^4)-15^2*(x^2+y^2)*z^2+350*x^2*y^2+9^2*z^4
poly=poly.polynomial(ZZ)

pnt=[1,2,3]

# Makes a certain variable subsitution, defined by pt, n times.
def test_subs(f,pt,n):
    for i in xrange(n):
        temp=f.substitute(x=x+pt[0]*z,y=y+pt[1]*z,z=pt[2]*z)
        #temp=f(x=x+pt[0]*z,y=y+pt[1]*z,z=pt[2]*z) #This also uses a lot of memory.

When i run test_subs(poly,pnt,100000) I can see the memory usage ticking up from around 1% up to nearly 2%. if I then run the function again the ticking starts at 2%, and so on. In the real problem I have my program eventually fills up all memory and then crashes.

Can you see why this is happening and do you know how to prevent it from happening?