[chuck-users] variables and memory

[Kassen]

Dimitris;

>
> Thanks Kas, yes I use all these techniques, I think I will even try to
define the variables outside the class/function and pass it by reference if
I see that I have a problem so that memory is allocated only once. I think
actually that this might solve the problem. (I hope that it's not only
objects/arrays that you pass by reference in ChucK, I'll have to check the
manual...)
>

I think most of our problems can be solved with this kind of technique, at
least practically speaking.

Still; I do think there are techniques that would be very worthwhile that
aren't being explored in ChucK right now because doing so would lead to
memory issues. For example recursion; we can use recursion (it's even used
in the examples) but we tend not to. For me part of the reason there is that
I fear the amount of garbage. For practical things I can re-write most
things linearly so it's no big deal but a recursive approach might be
extremely interesting on a compositional level.

I suspect having GC will open the door to new techniques that would be
impractical to explore right now.

Eduard;

That's interesting but are you sure that memory will actually be freed in
that case? I'm not so sure about that.

Yours,
Kas.
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