Re: Memory and the GC

[Andreas Stenius <kaos@...>]

David Olofson wrote:
[...]
> Are you certain that the function does away with all references, so 
> that the GC can really remove the data before the function is called 
> again?

Quite sure, I use `local' extensively, besides, most of the sizeable data
is only referenced as arguments to function calls deeper down (who don't
save them globally either ;)