Ok, good to know. Thanks!
Gord
On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 9:38:18 PM UTC-5, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 04:53:11 PM Gord Stephen wrote:
> > The problem arises when I need to repeat the process more than once -
> when
> > the SubArrays become out of scope they're garbage collected but A isn't
> - a
> > second call to demo2() then exceeds available memory.
>
> That sounds like a bug. Indeed, I can (sort of) reproduce this:
>
> julia> function foo()
> A = rand(3,5)
> B = sub(A, 1:2, 3:4)
> finalizer(A, A->@schedule(println("GCed A")))
> B
> end
> foo (generic function with 1 method)
>
> julia> B = foo()
> 2x2
> SubArray{Float64,2,Array{Float64,2},Tuple{UnitRange{Int64},UnitRange{Int64}},1}:
>
>
> 0.583567 0.719624
> 0.60663 0.739911
>
> julia> B = 0
> 0
>
> julia> gc()
>
>
> But call gc() immediately again, and it gets cleaned up:
>
> julia> gc()
> GCed A
>
> I filed an issue:
> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14127
>
> --Tim
>
>
