[perl #131879] [REGRESSION] Memory “leak”

[Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT]

OK, this is still not resolved, but it got noticeably better.

The issue is reproducible with the snippet provided in the original report.
On 2017-08-11 10:01:42, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote:
> There was some progress on this. jnthn++
>
> I guess the most promising commit regarding this issue is
>
https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/commit/0d2e5f8cc0264eb495ea4f20f3a0c90d05d55710
> , but there's at least one other commit that could've improved the
> situation (
>
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/c59b986785fe17f53e1664af1aa60e785ff31624
> ).
>
> I will test this again after we have MoarVM bumped (or sooner if I
> have time).
>
> On 2017-08-10 10:43:42, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote:
> > After recent rakudo updates whateverables started having some
> > problems. At first I thought that they simply became slower, but upon
> > further investigation it turned out that their memory usage was
> > increasing during the operation (which is most likely the reason for
> > them to slow down during the execution).
> >
> > MasterDuke++ did a lot of investigation and measurements, so I'm
> > hoping to see his comments here. I don't have much to say, so I'll
> > just give a bunch of links. Please bear with me.
> >
> > Initial conversation and relatively golfed down code:
> > https://irclog.perlgeek.de/moarvm/2017-08-05#i_14973432
> > https://gist.github.com/MasterDuke17/685b627a6a2749483dc5ec09c6a777a4
> >
> > dogbert11++ reproducing the issue
> > https://irclog.perlgeek.de/moarvm/2017-08-06#i_14976177
> >
> > (note that it seems like there's no memory leak, but the memory usage
> > is growing)
> >
> > More: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-08-08#i_14987204
> >
> >
> > I don't know if this affects anybody else, but jdv79++ was talking
> > about some memory issues recently: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6-
> > dev/2017-08-05#i_14973488