[Numpy-discussion] Memory leak in argsort?

[Francesc Altet]

El dl 05 de 02 del 2007 a les 08:45 -0800, en/na Keith Goodman va
escriure:
> This eats up memory quickly on my system.
> 
> import numpy.matlib as M
> 
> def memleak():
>     a = M.randn(500, 1)
>     while True:
>         a = a.argsort(0)

Yeah, the guilty in this case is argsort():

http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/ticket/394

Travis fixed this in trunk (but forgot to close the ticket ;)

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