OpenEuphoria

Re: Release memory?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Sep 19, 2002
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You could be right. I vaguely remember Rob saying something about Eu just using
the stock standard
malloc() that comes with the C compilers he uses. Maybe they are clever enough
to use Windows heaps
when running on NT?

19/09/2002 5:10:46 PM, rolf.schroeder at desy.de wrote:

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>Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
>> ... 
>> Each time a Euphoria program need more memory for a sequence operation, the
>> memory is taken from the program's heap, but if the heap is not large enough
>> the program grabs a bit more RAM from the operating system (thus increasing
>> the size of th eprogram's heap), and the heap is not returned until the
>> program ends.
>> 
>> This also applies to allocate() and allocate_string() calls.
>> 
>
>Derek,
>
>I'm not sure if this really is true. I run lots of EU-programs on a
>WinNT machine, and when I watch the memory consumption of each program,
>then I watch during one inner program loop increasing and decreasing
>memory consumption which means in my opinion that memory is returned to
>the OS (I don't use allocate() and free()).
>
>But the true expert (about the lots of experts on the list) is Rob. Rob?
>
>Nave a nice day, Rolf
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Cheers,
Derek Parnell 
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