[SciPy-Dev] memory leak fftpack? (fixed)

[Ralf Gommers]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Matt Terry <matt.terry at gmail.com> wrote:

> i'm working on it.  i have the dst/idst bindings working, and written
> the documentation (including documenting the destroy_cache functions).
>  i'm finishing up a test suite comparable to what dct has.  work is
> bearing down on me right now, but hopefully have a complete pull
> request in a week or so?
>
> Great.


> i wasn't going to make a destroy_all_cache() function.  i figure if
> you know enough to want to kill the cache, you can probably read the
> docs and see which cache you want killed.
>

I agree, documenting it is sufficient for now.

Cheers,
Ralf



>
> -matt
>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Ralf Gommers
> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Bartosz Telenczuk
> > <b.telenczuk at biologie.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> > http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/fftpack.html shows the
> >> > destroy_*fft*_cache() functions (though lacking any documentation).
> >> > Would it be sufficient to update the docs to mention that the fftpack
> >> > functions keep a cache and point you to the appropriate destroy
> >> > function to nuke it?
> >
> >
> > Matt, were you planning to do this while working on discrete sine
> > transforms? If not, we should open a ticket for this.
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, that would be very helpful, indeed. Perhaps, it might be a good
> idea
> >> to add a single function which cleans up all caches as well.
> >>
> >> It is worth alse mentioning that functions like signal.resample depend
> on
> >> fftpack and they suffer from the same problem.
> >>
> >> Bartek
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