On Apr 12, 7:53 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Edmund, > > This is a regression since last Tuesday's commit > f81e612cc9ff91ddefc1d86e270cd7f018701802. Thanks for catching it! > > Stu > > > > > Dear Clojurians, > > > I have been trying to get a proper grip on the operation of lazy- > > seq and hope somebody will have the time to clarify a point for me. > > The references indicate that you should not hold onto the head of a > > lazy sequence as it blocks the GC. This has lead to me to believe > > that a lazy sequence, even while being active 'downstream' can be > > GCd 'upstream'. Is this so ? > > > An example: in this post > > >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/57a12f1a0... > > > in the first version of fibo, the call (nth (fibo) 1000000) will > > cause a seq to proceed to the millionth element. If memory were > > tight could earlier elements be GC'd before nth had reached the > > end ? My understand is that it can. I ask because on my machine on > > Clojure 1.2, (nth (fibo) 1000000) causes a heap overflow which I > > don't understand. > > > Thanks in advance, > > > Edmund >
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