8 Aug
2006
8 Aug
'06
6:43 p.m.
On 8/8/06, David Powers cyborgk@gmail.com wrote:
Can you explain how/why this memory leak exists?
Hahem, When a symbol is sent for the first time, pd allocates memory for it (in the symbols table). This memory is never freed until you stop pd. I think this is used to speedup the process of sending several times the same symbol. You know : no need to use different strings, just use the same ! But it is a problem when you start creating many different symbols. You might overload your memory. Therefore, yes, I would say it would be more important to add a string type then a video type in pd.
So my feature request is actually : a string type.
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