On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I haven't completely worked out the best strategy to eventually release the > memory taken up by the pointers of the unreleased elements, but the worst > case scenario is that the unused memory only gets wasted until the time that > the list itself gets garbage collected. > FWIW, for a long-running FIFO queue, it's critical to release some of the memory along the way, otherwise the amount of wasted memory is unbounded. Good luck :) -- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>
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