[issue37329] [2.7] valgrind python2 -m test.regrtest test___all__: definitely lost: 324 bytes in 2 blocks

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <vstinner at redhat.com> added the comment:

> The best would be to explicitly release all memory at exit, but I don't think that it's worth it in Python 2.7 (...)

Python 2.7 "leaks" a lot of memory at exit...

==18497==      possibly lost: 5,665,418 bytes in 27,453 blocks
==18497==    still reachable: 8,530,840 bytes in 57,856 blocks

... but the operating system releases the memory anyway when the process exit. Technically, it's not a major issue unless you embed Python into an application. But again, it's Python 2.7: I suggest to focus efforts in the master branch.

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