Re: Clear vs. remove?
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- Subject: [mg43199] Re: [mg43043] Clear vs. remove?
- From: Ezine <ezine at omegaconsultinggroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:50:58 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
At 01:57 AM 8/9/2003, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: >I'm trying to do some memory management for an algorithm I'm writing in >Mathematica -- does Clear just remove the values, but leaves the memory >registry open (e.g. whatever the original size of the variable, that amount >of memory is still being used)? I am using clear and am not seeing a >decrease in memory at the appropriate time. Should I be using remove, or >some other function to clean up the memory? > >--j The expression is probably being held in an Out value. (Mathematica by default stores all previous outputs.) This can be controlled by setting the $HistoryLength. http://omegaconsultinggroup.com/Services/HTMLLinks/ezv2i06_3.html -------------------------------------------------------------- Omega Consulting "The final answer to your Mathematica needs" http://omegaconsultinggroup.com