[Audacity-nyquist] Re: leaky (?) xlisp

[Roger B. D. <rb...@cs...>]

I would not be surprised to find memory leaks in Xlisp (especially in =
the
extensions that I wrote for Nyquist), but Nyquist allocates a lot of =
dynamic
memory, and I do not think Nyquist attempts to free the memory when =
Nyquist
exits. A memory leak is a condition where memory is allocated and after =
some
point, the program can never use the memory again. My guess is you are
looking at the state of memory when Nyquist exits, but it is very =
difficult
to tell from this whether or not the un-freed memory is sitting in the
Nyquist free-list. If it's on the free list, then it has not leaked =
(yet).
There should be lots of this.