On 05/07/2013 04:42 PM, Matic Kukovec wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 23:31:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 05/07/2013 04:18 PM, Matic Kukovec wrote:
>>
>> > On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 23:14:20 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> >> GC.minimize() may work.
>>
>> > Tried it, no changes.
>>
>> Works for your test program under Linux but as the documentation says,
>> it is not guaranteed to have any effect at all.
>>
>> Ali
>
> I found this problem with a program that reads a large xml file (250000+
> lines), then stores the lines in a string[], does a comparison with
> another array and finally clears the original array.
You don't need to clear the original array but it should be harmless.
> On the second or third file I always get an OutOfMemoryError, when the
> Task Manager shows about 1.3GB memory usage.
>
> Is this a Windows specific thing or am I doing something wrong?
Is this a 32-bit platform? If so, the reason may be the conservative GC
that dmd uses. What happens is, unrelated 32-bit values in other parts
of the program may look like pointers into the allocated space and the
GC thinks that they are still in use.
Ali
