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Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? [message #60780 is a reply to message #60172]

Sat, 14 June 2008 05:43

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Bill Triplett writes:

> On the machine I'm rendering on, this wouldn't be a problem except that
> IDL does not seem to relinquish that memory after the view has been
> rendered and the objects destroyed. Its only after the IDL process quits
> that the memory is recovered by the OS. This seems contrary to the way
> IDL manages its heap.

It is contrary to the way IDL manages its heap, but the
heap is already in process memory anyway. But not
relinquishing memory is standard operating procedure, as
far as I know, for any program written in C and using
malloc and free to allocate and free memory.

Cheers,

David
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		direct graphics or object graphics ? By: natha on Tue, 06 May 2008 12:59
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:48
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: Mark[1] on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:41
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: Spon on Wed, 07 May 2008 03:53
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: R.G. Stockwell on Tue, 06 May 2008 14:10
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: natha on Tue, 06 May 2008 14:08
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:59
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: natha on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:53
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:47
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: Jean H. on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:39
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: natha on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:32
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: natha on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:24
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Tue, 06 May 2008 13:16
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: wtt on Sat, 14 June 2008 05:32
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: David Fanning on Sat, 14 June 2008 05:43
		Re: direct graphics or object graphics ? By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 16 June 2008 07:06

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