How to free memory allocated via double[][] using dmd-2.0.12?

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Markus Dittirich wrote:
> Bill Baxter Wrote:
> 
> 
>>Markus,  you do not show us what either read_data or process_data do. 
>>It is possible that one of those is somehow holding on to references to 
>>the data.  This would prevent the GC from collecting the memory.
>>
>>Another problem is if you allocate the memory initially as void[] then 
>>the GC will scan it for pointers, and in a big float buffer you'll get a 
>>lot of false hits.  To prevent that, allocate the buffer initially as 
>>byte[] (or double[] --- just not void).
>>
>>Anyway, if you want a speedy fix, you'll need to distill this down into 
>>something that is actually reproducible by Walter.
>>
>>--bb
> 
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> You're of course absolutely correct! Below is a proof of concept code
> that still exhibits the issue I was describing. The parse code needs 
> to handle row centric ascii data with a variable number of columns.
> The file "data_random.dat" contains a single row of random integers.
> After a few iterations the code runs out of memory on my machine
> and no deleting seems to help.
> 

does it change things if you drop the ~= in favor of extending the 
array? What about if you preallocate the array with the correct size to 
begin with? (I know this might not be doable in the general case)