12 Jan
2008
12 Jan
'08
7 p.m.
On 12 Jan 2008, at 10:26 AM, Andre Nathan wrote:
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 10:11 -0800, Jonathan Cast wrote:
A nit: the list is almost certainly getting created lazily, or you'd get more than 300% more memory usage. But you still get the list's cons cells as your bookkeeping baggage, and they take up space in exchange for greater flexibility.
But when I'm processing, say, the last directory entry, I have memory allocated for the other 9999 entries that have already been processed,
Wait, the last entry? If you're just printing out the values, then no --- those should have been garbage collected already. jcc