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

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

Dominic wrote:
>>>
To see if there are any leaks worth worrying about, compare the amount =
of
leaked memory after running one effect, and after running 10 Nyquist
effects.
<<<
In particular, you should run the same computation 10 (or 100) times -- =
if
you run something that requires more memory, Nyquist will allocate it =
and in
many cases not free it but add the memory to its pool managed by the =
garbage
collector.

The (STATS) call will tell you how much memory is allocated for sound =
data,
and the (INFO) call will tell you how much memory is allocated for Lisp
cells (not counting strings, which are allocated and freed using =
malloc())
and samples. A leak would cause Nyquist memory usage to increase by more
than the amount reported in STATS and INFO.