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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:08:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.0 diffs
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Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> The test ext/Encode/t/Uncode.t doesn't actually hang. It just takes a very
> long time (Athlon 850MHz, 640MB memory). I'll make it skip the long part of
> the test (tests 23 onwards) unless RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS is defined in the
> environment (a` la fileutils/coreutils). It tests growing a string, so I
> wonder if it's hitting some pathological memory allocation problem (i.e.: the
> free issue).

Try linking it with nmalloc, compiled with NDEBUG.  You might even
want to try out all those debuggery things I created.

   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/nmalloc.zip>

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