[Mono-list] Fwd: Threading and IO problem

[Chris Howie]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Yanko Hernández Álvarez
<yhdezalvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>  OTOH and as a curiosity: Is there any way to free memory directly (at
>  CIL level I mean) without using the GC? for instance:
>
>
>    while ((Str = SR.ReadLine()) != null) ;
>
>  with a little flow analisis we can determine Str isn't used after it
>  is assigned. is there a way to deallocate it efficiently without
>  waiting for the GC to collect memory?

This would also have to be determined for the ReadLine() method
(making sure it doesn't stash a reference somewhere) as well as any
methods that ReadLine() passes that string reference to (which may be
none, but you get my point).

I have often wished for the same thing, but implementing it is
considerably more complicated than it looks.

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