[ruby-core:86987] Re: [Ruby trunk Bug#14745] High memory usage when using String#replace with IO.copy_stream

[e-mail] wrote:
> ~~~ ruby
>   def read(length, outbuf)
>     chunk = @io.read(length)
> 
>     if chunk
>       outbuf.replace chunk
>       chunk.clear

Elaborating on my previous comment,  chunk.clear is a no-op in
this case because the shared frozen string is still in play and
now used by outbuf.

>     else
>       outbuf.clear

Likewise, the final #clear is also no-op because the
hidden+frozen string is still floating around waiting to be
GC-ed.

>     end
> 
>     outbuf unless outbuf.empty?
>   end
> ~~~

I don't think you need IO.copy_stream or IO#write to trigger, even.

~~~ ruby
io = FakeIO.new("a" * 50*1024*1024) # 50MB
buf = ''.b
while z = io.read(16384, buf)
end
~~~

I tried playing with shortening object lifetimes, but I guess GC
is not aggressive enough by default to matter.

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