how to 'free' a matrix ?

Joost Rekveld's icon

Hey there,

i'm discovering the joys of javascript, and i'm making a kind of 'coll'
object to store matrices.
i send it a keyword and a matrix, and the script makes a new matrix
internally, copies the input into it, and puts both keyword and matrix
in an array within a 'Global' namespace.

It works and all is great, but I discover that my copied matrices
persist even after deleting them from my delay.
they stop existing when I delete the 'Global' object in which namespace
they live, so to say.

but how can I 'free' an individual javascript-created jit.matrix object
?
is there something like

myMatrix.free(); ???

am I making myself a bit clear ?
the problem is probably somewhere in my knowledge of how javascript
created, maintains and disposes of objects, universes in general...

any info very welcome !!

ciao,

Joost.

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Joost Rekveld's icon
Thijs Koerselman's icon

Hi Joost,

I think freepeer() is what you're looking for. Not completely sure, but
I've seen it before in jitter js.

hth, T_

Joshua Kit Clayton's icon

As I believe is mentioned in the MaxMSP mailing list archives, it is
mymatrix.freepeer() to free the C peer object. Same is true for
Sketch, and Image. The general problem is that the JS GC doesn't know
about the C peer's memory and doesn't prioritize the collection of JS
garbage which is small despite the C peer's memory. So for these
cases you need to free the peer (or explicitly run the GC, which
happens to happen in new JitterObject() FWIW).

-Joshua

Joost Rekveld's icon

thanks Joshua and Thijs for the swift and exact reply...
now all is fine and I can go to bed peacefully...

ciao,

Joost.

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