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Optimizing memory

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• Subject: [mg64839] Optimizing memory
• From: Sensei <senseiwa at mac.com>
• Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 03:18:58 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi!

I wrote a parser for PDB files that calculates atom and residue  
inertia matrices, and I am sure I have written the worst code ever :)  
I'm new to Mathematica, so I don't think I know how to optimize my  
code. One particular concern is this.

Using Module[] and defining many local symbols, is the memory  
associated to them deallocated when the call exits? Or is it possible  
to force memory deallocation?

myParser[filename_]:=Module[
    { (* many symbols *) },
    symbol1 = ...;
    symbol2 = ...;
    (* very BIG memory allocation *)
    ...
]


Thanks for any information!

--
Sensei <senseiwa at mac.com>

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears it is true.      [J. Robert Oppenheimer]

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