Garbage Collection

debio Joined: 05/24/08 Posts: 17

Posted: 02/16/09 23:13:51 How would I go about disabling garbage collection globally? Would I just call tango.core.Memory.disable() at the start of my program, or is there a compiler/linker option that does it better? Would doing manual memory management have any ill effects on Tango?

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kris Joined: 03/27/04 Posts: 581	Posted: 02/17/09 01:52:03 There is a way to disable the GC, and it sounds like you found it? As a rule, Tango is careful to avoid hidden heap allocation so you should mostly be OK with manual mgmt alone. However, there are certain cases whereby creating a class instance may implicitly create additional ones ... this is where the GC can be handy.