Re: Re: drastic memory consumption with a sequenceofexceptions

"Derick Rethans" <derick@php.net> schreef in bericht news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0508101456350.3884@localhost... > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Ron Korving wrote: > > > My situation is parsing a number of XML-reports. If parsing goes wrong in > > any way (XML parsing fails, XML validation fails, database insertion fails), > > I want to throw an exception. There's a script that batch-processes these > > files. I want to collect exceptions and give that feedback to the user. I > > wouldn't consider this bad practice myself (but of course, I'm not very > > objective in this situation). > > You can still clean up your memory before throwing the exception... Actually, no. Even this shows the problem: foreach ($data as $line) { unset($data); throw new Exception("error"); } > > Even if I'm wrong about that, I'm not the only PHP-user and it's my humble > > opinion that the engine should be solid enough to deal with this. > > It's not easy at all, it would basically mean a full rewrite of the > engine's refcounting/garbage collection system, and also redoing all > extensions to use this mechanism. I think that's a bit too much to ask > just so that you don't get a leak if you're doing something 'weird'. I never thought it would be easy. And I'm not saying it must be fixed. But I do think, more on the philosophical level as a programmer, that the engine "should" be able to deal with that situation. Ron