PS > I just remembered why I loaded it ... its to enable fast searching of
past text clips. But maybe I can lazy load image clips which are the ones
that take up the most amount of ram anyways.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:35 PM Tom Glod wrote:
> Hi Phil, that function only reports available
Hi Phil, that function only reports available memory.
Hi Rick,
My application, the Time Saver's Toolbox, has a clipboard manager, and upon
loading the app, I load the existing archive of "clips" into memory.
Currently for example, the app is using 37 megabytes of system ram.
You are right,
Hi Tom,
Garbage Collection and releasing memory is not an
easy problem to solve. It would be better to try to
figure out why your application is chewing up so
much memory on load.
Load times can be improved by only loading in
stuff that you absolutely need to access at the
moment to display to
Hi Tom,
Does hasMemory() have any effect on available memory, or does it truly
just report the state of things?
I wonder if there is some shell command that might help?
Phil Davis
On 1/16/21 11:31 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm finding my application does a nice job
Hi Folks,
I'm finding my application does a nice job to unload data from memory, but
it takes a while for that to happen. When the initial load of the
application occurs, the memory consumption is quite high if there is lots
of data to be loaded (1 GB+).
But after a while, the used ram drops
