Re: [Rd] [R] R garbage collection

2006-03-31 Thread Luke Tierney
The allocations described as User-Controlled are not part of the GC-managed heap. The ones described as Transient happen to be but that is not user visible; alternate implementations might insure that they are freed as soon as the appropriate context is left. If you are interested in managing the

Re: [Rd] [R] R garbage collection

2006-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jeff Henrikson wrote: > r-help, [Moved to R-devel.] > The R manual lists two types of memory: transient and user-controlled. > If I have transient blocks reachable from the globals only by traversal > through user-controlled blocks, will they be correctly preserved? I don't