Go in Window on Mobile / Not Obeying Purge?

[Peter Bogdanoff]

I’ve found that if an inspector is open for something in that stack, purging is incomplete.

Peter

> On Mar 1, 2019, at 7:37 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
> 
> >... although all my modules/stacks have both "purge stack/window" set
> > to true, I am seeing change on stacks that are  "closed" when you
> > reopen them again.
> >
> > Thus, it means that Purge stack/window  is not implemented on
> >
> > Go [new-stack] in window of stack [old-stack] on mobile.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm? I wonder how long the RAM can keep up before it
> > crashes.
> 
> Personally that seems like a bug to me.  Maybe worth reporting.  The manner in which a stack is closed shouldn't matter with regard to how destroyStack works.
> 
> But just to clarify, the stack in question is a separate stack file, and not a substack of the one you're going to, yes?
> 
> Remember that LC keeps the entire stack file in RAM, and can't purge it until the mainstack and all substacks within the stack file are closed.
> 
> If it is purgeable (as a separate stack file), my hunch is you won't ever see a RAM issue from caching.  If you do it would be a bug. Caching is intended to speed up access, not to prevent ordinary behavior, so things not in use are purged as RAM is needed (same with cached images and other things).
> 
> If you're seeing slow or crashing behavior that seems like it might be RAM-related, maybe Apple's Instruments tool in xCode can help provide clarity on that:
> https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/71237/how-to-identify-cpu-and-memory-usage-per-process-on-iphone
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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