[issue3063] memory leak in random number generation

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> added the comment:

They stayed alive simultaneously because you stored 100 million of them
simultaneously in a list (data[]).  If instead you did, e.g.,

for i in xrange(100000000):
    x = random()

the problem would go away -- then only two float objects are
simultaneously alive at any given time (the "old" float in `x` stays
alive until the "new" float created by random() replaces it).

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