Thinking about large files.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Bart Coppens wrote:

> There are more things that do not compute unfortunately :-/ Try just _saving_
> a file (autosaving for example); it allocates a lot of tiles and does not
> seem to free them until the end...

I'm wondering -- do we actually delete any tiles except when shrinking a
paint device through cropping?

> Or see for example this:
> http://www.bartcoppens.be/massif.16316.ps
> There it seems that imagemagick memory is never freed after loading (for
> making that dump, I removed icc profiles so that I would get a cleaner
> result)

Curiouser and curiouser. "We zouden daar, voor ons goed fatsoen, eens
iets aan moeten doen."*

Boudewijn

* We should fix that, for decencies sake. In Dutch, it's a quotation,
and rhymes.