Re: [Vala] User managed memory?

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

Use list = NULL

but if there are no references for list outside
this function it will be automatically freed, so
the null assignation will not be necessary.

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:07:33 +0200
"Kaan Yamanyar" <kaan yamanyar com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I appreciate wonderful work you are dealing with. I was looking for similar
> idea for Java then I suddenly came face-to-face with this project.
>
> I hope to see a better eclipse plug-in which integrates easily with full
> support such syntax highlighting, building, debugging and it is for windows.
>
> Also, I wonder: If you define (if you had not defined already) a keyword
> like "delete" for memory management (so the developer is fully responsible
> for memory management), would performance be better? (Please see added line
> 21 to your List Example below:)
>
> KR,
> Kaan Yamanyar
>
> 01 using GLib;
> 02
> 03 public static int main (string[] args) {
> 04    List<string> list = new List<string> ();
> 05    list.append ("one");
> 06    list.append ("two");
> 07    list.append ("three");
> 08
> 09    stdout.printf ("list.length () = %u\n", list.length ());
> 10
> 11    // Traditional iteration
> 12    for (int i = 0; i < list.length (); i++) {
> 13        stdout.printf ("%s\n", list.nth_data (i));
> 14    }
> 15
> 16    // Comfortable iteration
> 17    foreach (string element in list) {
> 18        stdout.printf ("%s\n", element);
> 19    }
> 20
> 21    delete list; //USER MANAGED MEMORY ??
> 22    return 0;
> 23 }


  --pancake