Re: How to optimize use of RAM/disk access ?

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 12:26:17 AM UTC-7, reinert wrote:
> The reason I asked is that I develop the program on a desktop computer where it runs fast. When I run it on a laptop, it goes slow and "free-ing" pointers seems to make it run easier (on the laptop which seems to have slower disk (?)).

The variance of HW isn't something you should be optimizing for on a standard "user-level" program; that's the job of the OS which provides the "general interface" for the program you're writing. (There are exceptions, such as lower-level utilities.)

The best advice I can give, at such a high level (and with as little information as you provided), is to take a look at your algorithms and data-structures and ensure those are appropriate -- in this vein, you can use pools/subpools to free "everything" at that pool's level at once via clever use of scoping.