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mathlink loopback question

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg29934] mathlink loopback question
• From: Mario Drobics <mario.drobics at scch.at>
• Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 03:56:59 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Software Competence Center Hagenberg
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

 When I have a lot of elements (1,000,000 integers) in a Loopback link and 
 finally want to move its contents to the stdlink using 
 MLTransferExpression(stdlink, loopback) it takes very long (about 30sec!) 
 (but doesn't stress the CPU). Filling the Loopback, however, goes on the 
 fly. I wonder why this is so, as it should be nothing more then some kind 
 of pointer movement or memory copy (and need not more time than filling
 the loopback link)?
 
 I also wonder, how I can free the memory allocated temporarily, 
 MLClose(loopback) seems not to do the job.
 (I am using Mathematica 4.1, with MathLink for C++ and gcc 2.95.4 on a 
 Linux 2.2 system)
 
 tnx,
 -mario drobics-
 
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