You can try wrapping each printf call in a function. Sorry for that annoyance, it should be fixed but for now that's the workaround.
On Sunday, October 4, 2015, Chris Stook <chris.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having difficulty troubleshooting a memory allocation problem in a > show method for a user defined type. > > Compiling the show method with 126 @printf macros takes 197 seconds and > allocates 5.57GB of memory. The next call takes 0.014 seconds and > allocates 27.141KB. I moved the type and it's show method to a notebook > here: > > https://github.com/cstook/julia-printf-memory-allocation > > Memory allocation for compilation seems to be exponentially related to the > number of @printf macros, but I do not see any particular offending line. > This was determined by commenting out blocks of code. > > What is the best way to troubleshoot a compile time problem? > > Chris >
