The Fix Is In
Oct. 8th, 2020 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI have been fixing a silly number of bugs in the last couple of days.
One of the bugs that I am fixing right now is one that I thought was going to be a horrible amount of work. It turns out that I can fix it rather simply, which I found out after digging through the code.
I just can't *test* the fix, for reasons having to do with Microsoft Excel's lousy handling of COM memory and garbage collection in .NET.
So I am checking in the fix and passing it along to someone who has installed the 32-bit version of Excel, which seems to do a better job of garbage collection than the 64-bit version. That's not what I would have expected, but it is what appears to be true.
Some problems are just annoying.
One of the bugs that I am fixing right now is one that I thought was going to be a horrible amount of work. It turns out that I can fix it rather simply, which I found out after digging through the code.
I just can't *test* the fix, for reasons having to do with Microsoft Excel's lousy handling of COM memory and garbage collection in .NET.
So I am checking in the fix and passing it along to someone who has installed the 32-bit version of Excel, which seems to do a better job of garbage collection than the 64-bit version. That's not what I would have expected, but it is what appears to be true.
Some problems are just annoying.