Interesting speed benchmark

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 03:29:47 GMT, Rainer Deyke <root at rainerdeyke.com> wrote:
> 
> Basically that you have to do manual resource management for non-memory
> resources.
> 
> The following function leaks a file handle under Jython but works correctly
> under CPython:
> 
> def print_file(fname):
>   file = open(fname)
>   print file.read()

    But it's not a permanent leak, no? It leaks temporarily, but then the
derefereced file objects should be deleted when the GC finally fires up. 

    Mike

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