Another bug

Rob Browning rlb@cs.utexas.edu
05 Nov 2000 23:37:45 -0600


Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> writes:

> It doesn't appear to be a RAM problem (top shows that the memory
> used stays static), and the symptoms vary according to the guile
> version used.  It appears to be a problem with the design of the
> transaction report's HTML generator functions (they cause very large
> numbers of string allocations and deallocations, which overloads the
> garbage collector).

If so, then that's a painfully broken garbage collector...

> BTW, I realise that my gtkhtml is an older version, and checking
> their CVS it appears that page splitting has been improved in more
> recent code.  I'll have another play with it now.

Great.

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