Printing in a tight python loop consumes a huge amount of memory

[martyngigg]

This issue was originally TRAC 5275

Running this scripts consumes Gb's of memory and sometimes crashes!

#!python
sum = 0
while sum < 10000000:
    sum += 1
    print sum 

[martyngigg]

@martyngigg (2012-05-10T07:41:04):
There is also an issue if you remove the print statement it locks up the GUI and the loop takes an age to complete

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@NickDraper (2012-10-28T11:38:22):
Moved to milestone 2.4

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@NickDraper (2013-04-29T09:49:27):
Moved to r2.6 at the end of r2.5

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@martyngigg (2013-07-15T08:46:42):
Batch move to 2.7

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@NickDraper (2014-02-14T11:04:53):
Bulk move to assigned at the introduction of the triage step

[martyngigg]

No users have ever hit this error and it's pretty hard to work around with the current architecture.