OpenEuphoria

memory

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Jul 12, 2001
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Hey all,,

I have a short program that opens a 6.8megabyte file, containing text 
separated by lots of {0}. The object is to eliminate the {zero}s, and reformat 
the results to a more text-looking file. What i can't figure is that Taskinfo 
says Eu is using 86Megabytes in memory to do it! 

Are these the lines doing it? Is a new instance of data created every time it 
is mentioned in the line?:

puts(1,"removing 10 nulls\n")
place = match({0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},data)
while place do
 data = data[1..place] & data[place+10..length(data)]
 place = match({0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},data)
end while


Kat