Freeing memory from datablocks
by Daniel Buckmaster · in General Discussion · 04/05/2009 (5:10 am) · 0 replies
I'm not a coder by training, and I haven't read up on Torque's memory manager as much as I could. So sorry if this really is a silly question...
I've got datablocks created in a similar way to ShapeBaseImageData - with a bunch of big arrays of const char*s which are exposed to script, then used to fill in a C++ structure. The large arrays are then unused for the rest of the datablock's life.
I'm guessing that an array of, say, 256 const char* pointers is not going to be a trivial usage of memory, especially when there are multiple arrays of this size, and multiple datablocks. How can I free up this memory after the script arrays have done their job?
I've got datablocks created in a similar way to ShapeBaseImageData - with a bunch of big arrays of const char*s which are exposed to script, then used to fill in a C++ structure. The large arrays are then unused for the rest of the datablock's life.
I'm guessing that an array of, say, 256 const char* pointers is not going to be a trivial usage of memory, especially when there are multiple arrays of this size, and multiple datablocks. How can I free up this memory after the script arrays have done their job?
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