On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 04:38 +0900, ara howard wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Robert Dober wrote: > > > > > It seems GC just does not feel it worthwhile to release Bars when > > there are less than three.... > > that's sure odd eh? That is probably because the garbage collector looks on the C stack too, and C often leaves old stack contents lying around. Remember, this is a conservative GC, not a perfect GC. Also, the stack memory leaks that I reported today may be playing a role. Chris