[swarm-hackers] Memory leak in Swarm

[Steve Railsback]

A few months ago Steve Jackson went through a big exercise with Valgrind 
to get memory leaks out of our big fish model. Some of them turned out 
to be in Swarm, and I finally got him to take a moment or two from his 
new job as math professor to tell me at least the one that bugged him 
the most.

Apparently when you call Symbol getName, the method uses a string dup 
that leaves a string in the scratch zone.

Perhaps Scott or somebody mucking in the code could deactivate that feature?

Steve

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Steve Railsback
Lang, Railsback & Associates
Arcata, California
www.LangRailsback.com