Right. But that is probably not happening in your case, unless you are creating the bitmaps over and over.
Robby On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Mathew Kurian <bluejamesb...@gmail.com> wrote: > So in terms of garbage collection...the deletion of those arrays are the > only part. > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Mathew Kurian <bluejamesb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > If someone has a bit of spare time, can he/she explain how these images >> > are >> > loaded (time, allocation, garbage collection, etc) and then reproduced >> > again >> > during the redraws, it would be extremely useful. >> >> That particular aspect of the system is unlikely to be able to be >> improved (altho there may be some windows-specific strangeness I >> suppose; if you try on a mac and see the same behavior that would >> confirm my opinion). >> >> Instead, the question will be how to avoid doing the drawing that often. >> >> But to answer your question, the images are loaded by reading the >> file, interpreting the data stored there and creating a bitmap% object >> that records an flat array of the colors. Then, during drawing that >> data is (efficiently) copied onto the screen. >> >> Robby > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
