Memory "leak" in readChar (PR#1483)
Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
The code enclosed below demonstrates the problem. As-is, it causes the size of R.bin to grow from 11MB to 50MB, even though there are no large arrays. The old Rstreams package did not do this. Also, the function readBin() does not suffer from this problem.
Still there in a recent pre-1.5.0 looks like a bunch of Vcells is allocated but remains protected from garbage collection. I doubt that this is something we'd dare try and fix before the release on Monday though.
...unless someone happens to know exactly what is going on (as Brian apparently does)!
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