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makeTable memory usage

ahamlett

Is there a way to release the memory used by the makeTable() function? If you assign nil to the variable holding the table object, will the table be deleted and the memory freed?

I would like to use makeTable in a pcell, however I'm worried about using too much memory if the table data is always around and duplicated wherever the pcell is used.

I could use remove(g_key o_table) on every element.

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  •  Also be aware that when you pass a table as an argument, you are passing a pointer to the table and not the values in it. So if you change a value in the table inside a program where it came in as an argument, you change the table itself.

    HOWEVER- It is much faster and takes less memory to pass the table as an argument than to pass the very large list of individual arguments. If your table variable is defined in a let statement, it will be garbage collected when it finally goes out of scope.

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  •  Also be aware that when you pass a table as an argument, you are passing a pointer to the table and not the values in it. So if you change a value in the table inside a program where it came in as an argument, you change the table itself.

    HOWEVER- It is much faster and takes less memory to pass the table as an argument than to pass the very large list of individual arguments. If your table variable is defined in a let statement, it will be garbage collected when it finally goes out of scope.

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