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Re: Memory Allocation [message #38057 is a reply to message #16460]

Sun, 15 February 2004 05:40

justspam03
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Registered: October 2003

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Hi Neil,

Which IDL version do you use? It seems that memory handling
has improved quite a bit going from version 5.6 to 6.0.
Under 5.5/5.6 we observerd the following:

version a)
1) allocate large chunk of memory
(1200 objects, ca. 100MByte total)
2) allocate another chunk of memory
and resort data from 1) into this space
3) destroy objects allocated in step 1)
as they're not needed any longer
4) perform calculations on data located
in memory (from step 2)

version b)
exactly as a), but do not destroy objects
in step 3

Surprisingly version a) ran *much* faster (we're
talking about a factor of ~5) than version b)
Any idea why?
Seems this is not the case in 6.0 any longer.
Object destruction is quite a bit faster, too.
Kind regards,
Oliver

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