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Re: IDL Memory Management [message #18461 is a reply to message #18458]

Fri, 07 January 2000 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Craig Markwardt (craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu) writes:

> Windows used to have a non-linear addressing model when physical
> system memory was scarce. Memory was allocated in chunks which could
> be moved around by the Windows as needed, thus alleviating the above
> fragmentation problem. I think however that more recent versions of
> Windows have accepted the linear "Unix" model of memory architecture
> that I have described.

As I understand it, the compiler used for the Windows versions
of IDL *can* return process memory back to the OS. But it is
the only one to do so. It is not a feature, apparently, of
UNIX, Mac, and VMS compilers, which rely on Malloc and Free
for dynamic memory allocation.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: IDL Memory Management By: davidf on Fri, 07 January 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL Memory Management By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 07 January 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL Memory Management By: davidf on Fri, 07 January 2000 00:00
		Re: IDL Memory Management By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 07 January 2000 00:00
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