On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 23:09:29 UTC, Matic Kukovec wrote:
Hi
I'm running Windows Vista 64 with dmd 2.062.
I have a simple program:
import std.stdio, core.memory, std.cstream;
void main()
{
string[] temp_array;
for(int i=0;i<5000000;i++)
{
++temp_array.length;
temp_array[temp_array.length - 1] = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";
}
temp_array = null;
GC.collect();
writeln("end");
din.getc();
}
When the program waits at "din.getc();", memory usage in the
Task Manager is 150MB.
Why isn't the memory deallocating?
P.S.;
I tried temp_array.clear() and destroy(temp_array), but nothing
changed.
I guess the memory isn't freed because there is no need to do so.
A garbage collector kicks in when there is not enough memory. In
this case there is no need to.
