OpenEuphoria

About Eu garbage collection

• Posted by Henri.Goffin at sbs.be Aug 20, 2001
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Hi everybody!

It is probably to late to propose enhancement for 2.3 but maybe for the next
one.

Here's my problem. A program I am working on makes use of huge sequences. Some
of them - the biggest ones - are just used temporarily. So I thought naively that
when the routine was done extracting useful data from thoses big sequences it
would suffice to make 'huge = {}' to free up memory. But nope.

It seems that once memory has been dynamically assigned to sequences there is no
way to free it until the program is done. Am i right?

- If no, can someone tell how this can be done? Re-using the same sequence could
be a solution but this strategy might be very tricky to implement depending on
the program logic

-If yes, could'nt it be thinkable to have (in a more or less remote future) some
routine built into Euphoria runtime that would free the memory associated to
specified objects whenever you know you don't need those object at some point in
your program?

Henri Goffin