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Re: Clear everything in IDL? [message #9946 is a reply to message #9932]

Tue, 23 September 1997 00:00

Alex Schuster
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Registered: February 1997

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Matthew J. Sheats wrote:

> I've tried this.. unfortunately ( In windows NT anyway.. I haven't
> tried else where ) It does not seem to actually release the memory as
> such.
>
> Internal to IDL, it may mark that region of memory as freed, but
> Windows never receives that memory back until IDL is closed. It would
> also appear that any additional memory allocated doesn't utilize this
> memory which idl has already allocated, but instead pulls more off of
> NT's heap.

You're right! The IDL FAQ has a topic covering this. Have a look at
http://ww2.sd.cybernex.net/~mgs/idl_faq.html#T27

Alex
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		Re: Clear everything in IDL? By: Peter Mason on Wed, 24 September 1997 00:00
		Re: Clear everything in IDL? By: Alex Schuster on Tue, 23 September 1997 00:00
		Re: Clear everything in IDL? By: gurman on Tue, 23 September 1997 00:00
		Re: Clear everything in IDL? By: Matthew J. Sheats on Mon, 22 September 1997 00:00
		Re: Clear everything in IDL? By: Peter Mason on Fri, 26 September 1997 00:00
		Re: Clear everything in IDL? By: Matthew J. Sheats on Wed, 24 September 1997 00:00

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