Re: heap size exceeded for large matrices

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:47:09 +0100, Brian Drummond
<brian_drummond@btconnect.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:06:46 -0400, "Peter C. Chapin" <chapinp@acm.org> wrote:

>>Be aware that you may now have to explicitly deallocate the array at
>>some point. How necessary that is will depend on your program and some
>>other factors. It's something to keep in mind.
>
>..., so the intended lifetime is the block itself. 
>It seems that the deallocation in this case could be automated - and in crude
>tests enclosing the block in a loop I couldn't see memory use increasing with
>time ... perhaps this is not the case, I wasn't looking carefully enough?

Apologies to all: My late night recollection was faulty; my experiment covered a
different case. 

If the "new" allocation is in a loop, explicit deallocation (or possibly
controlled types - I haven't tried them yet) is required.

- Brian