Program uses twice as much memory in Python 3.6 than in Python 3.5

[Rick Johnson]

On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 8:17:01 PM UTC-5, Jan Gosmann wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2017, at 20:12, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> > If you can demonstrate this effect using simple example
> > code without the external dependencies (using nothing but
> > the standard library) and people can replicate it, I think
> > it should be reported as a bug.
> 
> I probably won't be able to demonstrate the effect with
> simple example code because I haven't the slightest idea
> what is causing it. Also, I'm not sure how much more time I
> want to invest in this. After all it is a problem that
> might never get noticed by any users of the software.

Really? How could your clients not notice 60 GB of memory
usage unless they are running some kind of mad-dog insane
top-of-the-line hardware? (Got Benjamins???) Of course, in
the case they are not DARPA scientist supported by a
viturally unlimited supply of tax dollars provided by the
endless toils of American slave-bots, how could they ignore
the thrashing? o_O