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garbage collection and netlink

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg56693] garbage collection and netlink
• From: Andreas Tanner <tanner at ivs.tu-berlin.de>
• Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 00:32:59 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Technische Universitaet Berlin, Deutschland
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

in this example:

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IKernelLink ml = MathLinkFactory.CreateKernelLink("-linkmode launch 
-linkname 'c:\\program files\\wolfram 
research\\mathematica\\4.2\\mathkernel'");
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
s.Append("<<Statistics`NormalDistribution`;");
			
			s.Append("<<Statistics`DiscreteDistributions`;");
			
			s.Append("dpoisson=PoissonDistribution["+NumberOfClients*BirthRate+"];");
		 
s.Append("dnormal=NormalDistribution["+MeanBidAmount+","+BidAmountSigma+"];");
			Console.WriteLine(s);
ml.Evaluate(s.ToString());
ml.WaitAndDiscardAnswer();
			

ml.Evaluate("Table[Random[dnormal],{i,1,Random[dpoisson]}]");
ml.WaitForAnswer();
float[] x= ml.GetSingleArray();

...

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what is left in the kernel's memory?
Clearly, dpoisson and dnormal are, but what about the tables of the 
generated randoms? They are not stored in any variable, so they should 
be garbage-collected?

Thanks for your help
--Andreas.