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Re: Simple questions [message #2947 is a reply to message #2841]

Thu, 06 October 1994 08:37

rmm
Messages: 4
Registered: June 1994

Junior Member

One slight correction to the previous post:

When you free memory by setting an array to a scalar, e.g.

huge=fltarr(1000,1000)
.
.
.
huge=0

It does not free the memory back to the OS (operating system). It does
however free the memory for IDL to reuse internally.

Robert M. Moss
Texaco Inc.
rmmoss@Texaco.COM

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