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>>>>> "ccf::satchell" == ccf::satchell <ccf> writes: ccf::satchell> On my system (Slackware 3.3 = linux 2.0.30), the ccf::satchell> following fragment leaks memory very fast. It may ccf::satchell> be a guile problem or a regex library problem, does ccf::satchell> everybody else have the same trouble or not, or is ccf::satchell> a leak expected? ccf::satchell> (let (( abc-rx (make-regexp "abc" ))) (do ((i 0)) ccf::satchell> (#f ) (regexp-exec abc-rx "123" ) ) ) Older versions of guile (more than 6 months old) had a memory leak with regexp. Current snapshot should be fine. Outside from Linux, SunOS 2.4 ships with a broken regexp library. You must install another one. -- B. Urban