[Chicken-users] Re: Garbage collection

[Zbigniew]

Oh, I thought that was just command history so I never tried it! 
That's really neat.

On 5/23/05, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 5/21/05, Zbigniew <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I was wondering if csi keeps some kind of hidden reference to objects
> > you create.  Heap memory never seems to get freed, as shown below.
> > Running this code as an executable, or compiling it into a shared
> > library and running that in csi, does free the memory.
> > 
> 
> The history-list keeps the results of each evaluated
> expression (so that you can refer to earlier results
> with #<N>). Something like
> 
> #;1> (begin (make-vector ...) #f)
> 
> should not retain the garbage.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> felix
>