Deallocate array?

[Matic Kukovec]

On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 23:58:53 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 05/07/2013 04:42 PM, Matic Kukovec wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 23:31:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> >> On 05/07/2013 04:18 PM, Matic Kukovec wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 23:14:20 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> >> >> GC.minimize() may work.
> >>
> >> > Tried it, no changes.
> >>
> >> Works for your test program under Linux but as the
> documentation says,
> >> it is not guaranteed to have any effect at all.
> >>
> >> Ali
> >
> > I found this problem with a program that reads a large xml
> file (250000+
> > lines), then stores the lines in a string[], does a
> comparison with
> > another array and finally clears the original array.
>
> You don't need to clear the original array but it should be 
> harmless.
>
> > On the second or third file I always get an OutOfMemoryError,
> when the
> > Task Manager shows about 1.3GB memory usage.
> >
> > Is this a Windows specific thing or am I doing something
> wrong?
>
> Is this a 32-bit platform? If so, the reason may be the 
> conservative GC that dmd uses. What happens is, unrelated 
> 32-bit values in other parts of the program may look like 
> pointers into the allocated space and the GC thinks that they 
> are still in use.
>
> Ali

The system is Windows Vista 64bit. DMD is 2.062.