Garbage collection

[Mike Parker]

On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:11:38 UTC, James Gray wrote:

>
> I am measuring the memory usage using top from the command line.
> GC.minimize() does seem to stop the leak. But it doesn't 
> explain why
> the program isn't releasing essentially all the memory between 
> calls
> to f (it using around 2GB ram all the time). Is there a way of 
> achieving that?

It's not a leak. The GC allocates memory as it needs it and holds 
on to it. When something is collected, the GC can reuse then 
released memory when it needs it.