Re: Memory allocation overhead

Eric Bezault wrote:
> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> Do you use free at all? Obviously that won't reduce the number of
>> allocations, but it will reduce the number of objects the GC has to
>> deal with. Does it give any advantage over assigning Void to the
>> reference?
> 
> I don't use free.

I just saw that in your last check-in you used MEMORY.free.
This is a bad idea in my opinion. And it won't help anyway
when using gec+boehm (it's currently implemented as a no-op).

I talked about reducing the amount of garbage generated,
not about manually managing the memory.

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