Thanks for the reference Dave! :)

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James Ang
Programmer
MedSeek, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:55 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: does StructNew() destroy old structure completely?


> Memory deallocation, from my experience, happens at the 
> end of a request. It makes sense that way, and that would 
> be how I would implement the CFML interpreter engine anyway 
> since all the engine needs to do is to keep track of the 
> heap memory assigned to the thread performing the CFM 
> request, and just return the heaps back to the heap pool 
> when the request ends. I think Allaire/MACR used to call 
> them SmartHeaps. Pretty funny name. ;)

I suspect the name came from the product they were using to manage
memory:
http://www.microquill.com/

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
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