From naras@stat.stanford.edu  Mon Aug  2 18:27:21 1999
From: naras@stat.stanford.edu (Balasubramanian Narasimhan)
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:27:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Advice interfacing to an imaging library
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:50:52 +1000"
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>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Beare <Richard.Beare@cmis.csiro.au> writes:

    Richard> 2) garbage collection. It is now easy to lose track of
    Richard> memory, and this is likely to be significant because
    Richard> images are usually quite big. There is a delete function
    Richard> in the library, so it is possible to dispose of images
    Richard> manually, but an automated method would be nice. One
    Richard> option is to keep a global list of all pointers returned
    Richard> from C function calls, generate a list of all image class
    Richard> objects visible in R and compare the two. Any pointers
    Richard> not on the image class list can be disposed. Does anyone
    Richard> have any other ideas?

I'd look to embed a JVM into R and use all the power of Java for image
processing and garbage collection. I've done it with xlispstat but not
with R.
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Advice interfacing to an imaging library
Balasubramanian Narasimhan