Re: [Vala] How to free delegate callbacks

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 00:53 +0300, Adi Roiban wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this big problem with memory consumption.
>
> Gtk.Entry entry = new Gtk.Entry();
> for (float i=0; i < 1000000; i++) {
>     entry.focus_in_event.connect( () => {});
> }
> Gtk.main();
>
>
> When I run the above code it uses about 40MB. Without the callback its
> only 700KB.

The only way I know to disconnect a signal handler is to explicitly
assign it a name first. eg, declare the handler as a member function,
then feed the function name to signal.disconnect.

Yu
> Do you know what can I do to reduce the memory consumption?
>
> Many thanks!