I normally don't use it either, but I ran out of memory this morning because of lazy garbage collection. After that I inserted it in all the new methods to avoid it would happen again... fortunately I didn't actually wait 100 hours before realising something was odd :D Cheers, Sofie Thomas Abeel wrote:
gc() is only useful if you need to reclaim huge objects before you allocate a new one. It can be a very expensive operation with many small objects, only works nicely with few big objects.
Other than that, my recommendation is to never ever use it.
-T
Sofie Van Landeghem wrote:
Does anybody ever use it? I thought it'd speed up my program... instead it turned a 5 minute job into a 100 hour one :s
Sofie
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