Re: [Sbcl-devel] string object garbage with newer SBCL versions

[Gábor M. <me...@re...>]

On Miércoles 11 Marzo 2009, david thompson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM, david thompson <tho...@gm...> 
wrote:
> > Regarding the dynamic space consumption exhibited by
>
> A few observations on the off-chance another SBCL user finds
> his/herself motivated to pursue the dynamic space issue that seems to
> have reared its head with 1.0.17.24 (culminating in heap exhaustion)
> associated with repeated evaluations of
>
>               (handler-case (eval '(setq (list 1 2) 1))
>                 (error () nil))
>
> 1. dynamic space issues seem to occur with the binary sparc-linux
> SBCL 1.0.22 as well as with the x86 SBCLs
>
> 2. dynamic space issues don't seem to occur with the handler-case
> form calling SB-C::FIND-FREE-VAR (w/ or w/o EVAL)
>
> 3. dynamic space issues don't seem to be associated with the
> handler-case form calling SB-C::COMPILER-ERROR (w/ or w/o EVAL)
>
> 4. dynamic space issues with SETQ don't occur unless the SETQ is
> wrapped in EVAL (i.e., SETQ alone in the loop doesn't produce same
> hogging phenomenon)

Fix committed as 1.0.26.21. Thanks for the report.

Cheers, Gabor