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Re: How to free memory?

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• Subject: [mg59793] Re: How to free memory?
• From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 03:51:45 -0400 (EDT)
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OK, Permit me to extract my foot from my mouth!

Of course, Out holds the various outputs even if they were terminated by 
a semicolon - so the 'memory leak' is totally explained. A loop such as

k = 0; While[True,  k++;  s = Table[i, {i, 1, 10^7}];  Print["Iteration 
", k]  ]

leaks no memory.

David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk

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