RE: [PHP-DEV] Leaking references

WF>> Ahhh. WF>> WF>> It may sound like a stupid question, but why not? Because reference-counting mechanisms of memory management are not fit to deal with circular references. WF>> And is it likely to in the future? I won't be holding my breath for it. That's the basic property of reference-counting, so it's not easy to make it behave differently. Anyway, unless you have very-long-running very-memory-greedy scripts, these leaks shouldn't bother you - Zend memory manager cleans them up on every request. WF>> As for the leaks, when on a production system (--disable-debug) WF>> does PHP catch and free them after each request (provided they WF>> are emalloc'd) ? Yes. You don't see the messages, but the memory manager is still there :) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115