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Re: [Chicken-users] Garbage collection
From: |
felix winkelmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Garbage collection |
Date: |
Mon, 23 May 2005 06:36:57 -0700 |
On 5/21/05, Zbigniew <address@hidden> wrote:
> I was wondering if csi keeps some kind of hidden reference to objects
> you create. Heap memory never seems to get freed, as shown below.
> Running this code as an executable, or compiling it into a shared
> library and running that in csi, does free the memory.
>
The history-list keeps the results of each evaluated
expression (so that you can refer to earlier results
with #<N>). Something like
#;1> (begin (make-vector ...) #f)
should not retain the garbage.
cheers,
felix