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Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure [message #71382]

Thu, 17 June 2010 09:43

penteado
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On Jun 17, 12:45 pm, Craig Markwardt <craig.markwa...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jun 16, 1:50 pm, Ed Hyer <ejh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since I'm not a real programmer, I still consider pointers to be kinda
>> voodoo. Can someone patiently explain how I manually clean up the
>> memory in this case?
>
> I still think RSI/Kodak/ITT dropped the ball on the design of this.
> IDL is a high level language, not a low level language - "4th
> generation" right? IDL should be cleaning up messes like this, not
> us.

I think it is proper for the times when IDL originated, when it was
too expensive to do automatic garbage collection. IDL 8 has it (it can
be switched off), though one could argue that it should not have taken
so long.

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		Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure By: penteado on Thu, 17 June 2010 09:43
		Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 17 June 2010 08:45
		Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure By: rogass on Thu, 17 June 2010 01:46
		Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure By: MarioIncandenza on Wed, 16 June 2010 14:53
		Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure By: rogass on Wed, 16 June 2010 14:16
		Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure By: rogass on Thu, 17 June 2010 23:47
		Re: Memory Cleanup-- Messy structure By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 17 June 2010 17:10

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