Bazaar: Out of memory

[Andrew Bennetts]

James Henstridge wrote:
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> 
> In contrast, each "line_bytes += line" iteration in your version does:
>  1. allocate a new string large of length len(line_bytes) + len(line)
>  2. copy line_bytes and line into the new string
>  3. free the old line_bytes.

(Actually, since Python 2.4, “s += 'abc'” is sometimes more efficient:
http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/whatsnew/node12.html#SECTION0001210000000000000000

It doesn't sound like you should rely on that particular optimisation though.)

I haven't looked at the offending code at all, but how hard would it be for the
relevant APIs to accept an iterable of strings instead of a single big string?

-Andrew.