[issue14596] struct.unpack memory leak

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I suspect that this is due to the struct module cache, which caches
> Struct instances corresponding to formats used.  If that's true,
> there's no real leak as such.

Well, the posted code creates 30 struct instances. That shouldn't exhaust the memory of a 8GB box (which it does here)...

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nosy: +pitrou
type:  -> resource usage
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 -Python 2.6, Python 3.1

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