Re: free seems not work
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Feb 23, 2011
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Actually, managed memory seems to not free user allocations, either. Sorry, it's been a while since I've looked at the Windows memory management stuff.
So is there still a difference between "Euphoria managed memory" and "system managed memory" (a choice at compilation)? I'm not seeing a difference between memory-hoggingness between the two, or should I chalk that up to something Win7 64bit is doing that XP 32bit didn't? I did try it on an virtual XP 32bit with VirtualBox, but even the old version of Eu didn't behave the same as it did on my old non-virtual XP setups, so I assume the virtualization is changing things there somehow.
It's practically guaranteed that the memory managers of XP and Win7 are different. There's probably a Raymond Chen blog out there somewhere that explains this all.
Matt
