Deleting objects on the fly

Paul Rubin http
Sat Aug 11 08:29:01 EDT 2007


Dustan <DustanGroups at gmail.com> writes:
> > | del x will remove x from memory if nothing else is refering to it,
> > This is implementation dependent: true for CPython, not for Jython, ??? for
> > IronPython.
> Wait a second; do you mean to say that in Jython, del x will never
> remove x from memory? How do you free up RAM?

It stays around until the GC picks it up.



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