bug#496: 23.0.60; ispell-word becomes increasingly slower

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

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> From: Markus Triska <markus.triska@gmx.at>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:26:55 +0200 (CEST)
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> When I save the following form to test.el:
> 
> (let ((n 0))
>   (with-temp-buffer
>     (insert "test")
>     (while t
>       (setq n (1+ n))
>       (when (= (mod n 100) 0)
>         (message "n: %s -- %s" n (emacs-uptime)))
>       (ispell-word nil t))))
> 
> and then do "emacs -Q --script test.el", I get:
> 
>    Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
>    n: 100 -- 0 seconds
>    n: 200 -- 0 seconds
>    n: 300 -- 0 seconds
>    n: 400 -- 0 seconds
>    n: 500 -- 1 second
>    n: 600 -- 1 second
>    n: 700 -- 1 second
>    n: 800 -- 1 second
>    n: 900 -- 1 second
>    n: 1000 -- 1 second
>    n: 1100 -- 1 second
>    n: 1200 -- 1 second
>    n: 1300 -- 1 second
>    n: 1400 -- 1 second
>    n: 1500 -- 1 second
>    n: 1600 -- 1 second
>    n: 1700 -- 1 second
>    n: 1800 -- 1 second
>    n: 1900 -- 1 second
>    n: 2000 -- 1 second
>    ...
>    n: 52400 -- 3 minutes, 12 seconds
>    n: 52500 -- 3 minutes, 13 seconds
>    n: 52600 -- 3 minutes, 14 seconds
>    n: 52700 -- 3 minutes, 15 seconds
>    ..
>    n: 70500 -- 8 minutes, 30 seconds
>    n: 70600 -- 8 minutes, 31 seconds
>    n: 70700 -- 8 minutes, 33 seconds
>    n: 70800 -- 8 minutes, 35 seconds
>    n: 70900 -- 8 minutes, 36 seconds
>    n: 71000 -- 8 minutes, 38 seconds
>    ...
> 
> i.e., the program becomes increasingly slower, from many iterations
> per second to several seconds per iteration. With "top", I also see
> that aspell uses increasingly more memory. I can reproduce this on
> Fedora Core 9 and OSX 10.4 with Aspell 0.60.5. In a simplified test to
> check for memory leaks in aspell, I did:
> 
>    $ while true; do echo "test"; done | aspell -a
> 
> and in this case, aspell's memory usage seems to stay constant.

Garbage collection?