| Re: Garbage collection and Memory [message #2289 is a reply to message #2195] |
Fri, 03 June 1994 02:59   |
pjclinch
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Registered: May 1993
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Liam E. Gumley (gumley@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <1994Jun2.155555@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl>,
: hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh Evans) wrote:
: > The question I have is: Is there any command that invokes a garbage collector
: > to clean up the memory used? Or do I just have to save the session, exit and
: > restart the session?
: If you have a large variable array which is longer needed, just redefine it
: as a single value variable, e.g.
: array = fltarr(10000,10000)
: (processing steps)
: array = 0
Or use the delvar command to trash it completely:
array=fltarr(10000,10000)
(processing steps)
delvar, array
Pete.
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