[vtkusers] Delete problems

[Dominik Szczerba]

That's smarter, thanks for a hint.
--ds

Xiaofeng Zhao wrote:
> The following should also work:
> 
>    //scope to use a lot of memory
>    vtkSmartPointer<...> ptr = New();
>    //huge dataset occupies memory only in this scope
>    //do something with the dataset
>    ptr = 0;
> 
> I don't think it is a common practice to introduce a local scope just 
> for memory management.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominik Szczerba" 
> <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch>
> Cc: "vtkusers vtkusers" <vtkusers at vtk.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 6:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [vtkusers] Delete problems
> 
> 
>> Mathieu, Amy, Utkarsh,
>> Thank you all for your hint on smart pointers, I am now perfectly fine 
>> with them. However, as I understand now, I cannot explicitly free the 
>> memory occupied by a big dataset I am not going to use anymore, is 
>> that correct? I am thinking of a solution, is the below OK to use?
>>
>> {//scope to use a lot of memory
>>   vtkSmartPointer<...> = New();
>>   //huge dataset occupies memory only in this scope
>>   //do something with the dataset
>> }
>> //memory automatically released without Delete()
>>
>> Or are there any better solutions?
>> Thanks for any hints,
>> regards,
>> Dominik
>>
>> -- 
>> Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
>> Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
>> http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi
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-- 
Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi