Hi,

I was trying to better understand how ChucK deals with memory management.

I know there's no garbage collector in place and I also checked on the mailing list, where I found several really interesting conversations about this topic.

But still, I've got this scenario where the memory in use keeps growing.:

From terminal I launch:

chuck --loop
then I run several times:

chuck + gc_empty.ck

every time I wait that this ends first.
gc_empty.ck contains just 1 line:

1::second => now;

at the same time I'm monitoring chuck using top (on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1) and I get the following values for MEMORY:

as soon as I launch ChucK: 9008K

1st time I run "gc_empty.ck": 9108K

2nd time I run "gc_empty.ck": 9112K

3rd time I run "gc_empty.ck": 9196K

Why is ChucK using more and more memory?

Sorry if this is maybe a silly question.

Cheers,

Mario