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On 9/25/2012 11:50 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> I suspect that heapy has some limitation in its reporting, and that's 
> what the discrepancy.

That would be my first suspicion as well - except that heapy's results 
agree so well with what I expect, and I can't think of any reason I'd be 
using 10x more memory. If heapy is wrong, then I need to try and figure 
out what's using up all that memory some other way... but I don't know 
what that way might be.

> ... can be an expensive proposition if you are building millions of 
> them. So can nested functions with non-local variable references, in 
> case you have any of those. 

Not as far as I know.

Cheers, MrsEntity