de-allocate memory necessary?

[FastLife]

i allocated memory using VirtualAlloc. this i have done 9 times.

now i don't need those memory anymore so do i have to free/remove them to improve the application's cpu?

 

i mean, i know when the application is gonna terminate, all memory will be freed, but while the application is running, and i don't need the allocated memory anymore, is it better to remove/free that memory to have a lower pcu usage or something?

[LCF-AT]

Hi,

 

sure its better to free the memory again if you don't need it anymore.So if user XY used a low level PC with less memory then user XY PC's is getting slower.Also a question how much sizes you alloc (don't think that you wanna alloc 9x 500 MB VirtualMemory or?).

 

greetz

[Lostin]

It's all about RAM and not the CPU.

[xSRTsect]

If you deallocate memory the less likely the OS needs to perform paging commit and that requires disk access and it will be slow

[FastLife]

thanks people.

 

so i used VirtualAlloc to allocate memory, which api do i need to de-allocate this memory?

[Loki]

VirtualFree

 

VirtualFree(pointer_to_your_allocated_memory, NULL, MEM_RELEASE);
 

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366892(VS.85).aspx

[FastLife]

thank you guys gonna try it!