What is process.memory giving ?

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Gordon

Hi. You can basically ignore 'history' now - process.usage is all you need.

If you look at trace, each blinker is allocating:

A Blinker instance 12 blocks

An interval 8 blocks

A newly instantiated callback function (including the scope that Blinker.prototype.start was executed in) ~16 blocks

So each new Blinker is a total of 36 blocks = 720 bytes.

When you use require, you could try calling http://www.espruino.com/Reference#l_Modules_removeAllCached after instantiating all Blinkers? That'll probably free the cached module.

IMO Espruino could do significantly better. If we added a Function.prototype.bind function you could skip defining the function inside start() and that'd save you a lot of memory.

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