From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-07-17T12:17:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How to reclaim memory without GC.start

Travis D Warlick Jr wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>> Travis D Warlick Jr wrote:
>>> Lionel Bouton wrote:
>>>
>>>     while buffer[0...512] = file.read(512)
>>>
>> Do you mean file.read(512, buffer) ?
> 
> Ahh, yes.  That would be an much prettier way to do it.
> 
>     while file.read(512, buffer)

It's not just prettier. With an assignment like

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

there is an intermediate string that instantly becomes garbage.

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