From: Travis D Warlick Jr <warlickt@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T09:53:31+09:00
Subject: Re: How to reclaim memory without GC.start

Lionel Bouton wrote:
> Actually, as variable affectation is done by reference

I knew that... woops... **beats head on keyboard**

However, A chance to redeem myself: I remembered that IO#read returns a
string, so change the while to:

    while buffer[0...512] = file.read(512)

That should overwrite the contents of the buffer

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  Travis Warlick

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   you what you've done wrong."