OpenEuphoria

Re: Is this leaking?

• Posted by Kat <KSMiTH at PELL.NET> Nov 28, 1999
• 426 views

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Craig <rds at ATTCANADA.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Is this leaking?



> Conclusion: maybe the optimizer should be a bit smarter.

Like not optimizing inside a loop until forced to?

> > My best guess is that maybe it's not releasing the memory
> > used by the temporary sequences formed by the
> > concatenation until after it exits the loop,
>
> I don't think you are running out of space.
> Euphoria recycles the space as it goes, inside the loop.
> It doesn't wait until after the loop to do it. You will however
> have a copy of r2 stored in an internal temporary variable.

Maybe this is a good example of the programmer knowing there are enough
resources available,, or testing to be sure while running, and inhibiting a
garbage collection until done with this loop? Like, inside the loop: if
 $availmem < SomeVal ) { DoGarbageCollection }?

Kat,
curious as.