[XML-SIG] XML code that creates cyclic garbage

[Uche Ogbuji]

> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:37:28AM -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> >garbage collection scheme can not collect.  Can someone point me at
> >some example code that has this property?  I'd like to test the
> >garbage collector that is in Python 2.0.
> 
> I believe 4DOM uses cyclical references, and requires that you always
> call a .releaseNode() method to break the cycles.  So, you could just
> try running 4DOM and never calling .releaseNode(); with the GC, it
> shouldn't leak.  The old PyDOM code tried to avoid creating cycles, so
> it wouldn't make any garbage to be collected (modulo bugs).

Yes.  You can simply take any of the 4DOM demos, replace the ReleaseNode calls 
with a del of the corresponding root node, and check that all memory was 
reclaimed.

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