[Piuparts-devel] Bug#673919: Bug#673919: piuparts-report - Release Section object when section processing complete

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Dave,

thanks for your bugreport!

On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2012, Dave Steele wrote:
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts

this usertag is useless :)
 
> piuparts-report is a bit of a resource hog, both in terms of RAM usage
> and clock time. There is a loop in the main routine that maintains an
> array of Section objects, which is never accessed. Removing this array
> would permit those objects to be garbage collected earlier.

looking at the code it seems your right, but have you tested it? :-) Strangely 
this code is like this since always, ie it predates my involvement with 
piuparts.


cheers,
	Holger