Simple Way to get Memory Available

[Calloway]

Here's a quick little script to help see how much memory is left in GP.

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(toNumber (join (at (at (words (mem)) 3) 2) (at (at (words (mem)) 3) 3) '.' (at (at (words (mem)) 3) 5)))

You could use this to help guide garbage collection in your project by calling it whenever the percentage reaches a certain threshold. And since it mainly uses primitives, it won't tank your project by using it.

[Spiralo-Idioïde]

I'm not sure it could add anything to the built-in garbage manager wich seems to be very efficient.
Just look at this GIF (I'm using your code to get memory usage and the 'grapher' part).

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But if you think it can be usefull in some way I'd be happy to know.

[Spiralo-Idioïde]

Oh, I just noticed we can speed-up the process a lot.
The (memoryUsage) block is not a primitive, the primitive is (memStat). Using this one instead (with a division and multiplication) should make things go faster.

For example, GP manages to set a variable with the reporter you gave approximately 14 000 times per second.
By using the primitive it's 6 400 000 times per second, more than 400 times faster.

Here is a screen of the code to use the primitive.

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And the code I used to compare boths.

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GP Scripts
script 'MyClass' 423 194 {
local 'tmp' (msecsSinceStart)
setShared 'monit' 0
repeat 100000000 {
  var = (100 * ((at (memStats) 1) / 200000000))
}
setShared 'monit' (((msecsSinceStart) - tmp) / 100000000)
}

script 'MyClass' 169 349 {
local 'tmp' (msecsSinceStart)
setShared 'monit' 0
repeat 100000 {
  var = (toNumber (join (at (at (words (mem)) 3) 2) (at (at (words (mem)) 3) 3) '.' (at (at (words (mem)) 3) 5)))
}
setShared 'monit' (((msecsSinceStart) - tmp) / 100000)
}

[Calloway]

I like your method a lot more lol, also you can right click it and press text code to copy and paste that into the forums
(if people want to import, they open a workspace and paste it then highlight all the text and press ctrl+b)

[Spiralo-Idioïde]

I like your method a lot more lol

Thanks you.

also you can right click it and press text code to copy and paste that into the forums
(if people want to import, they open a workspace and paste it then highlight all the text and press ctrl+b)

Waw, we can use Ctrl+b ? That's really, really, awesome. Thanks for the advice I'll do that starting from now.

[Calloway]

Just out of curiosity what were you doing before to get the primitives lol

[Spiralo-Idioïde]

I don't remember perfectly but I had already used this exact same block to print memory usage next to the FPS. When seeing your code I wanted to know wich one was faster than the other