Clear vs. remove?
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- Subject: [mg43043] Clear vs. remove?
- From: "Jonathan Greenberg" <greenberg at ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:57:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
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