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EnTerr
Roku Guru

YAWRR: A chess-related death

In today's episode of our award-seeking series "Yet Another Way to Reboot Roku", we have a variation of the ancient "rice and chessboard problem"
s="1": for i=1 to 99: ?i: s=s+s: next

It will pass away quietly at around 27-28. This is one (terminal) way to estimate the amount of free memory.
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RokuJoel
Binge Watcher

Re: YAWRR: A chess-related death

Nice. Note that on Legacy devices:

Out of Memory when doing string operation. (runtime error &h1a) in ...AA7qjxTe/pkg:/source/test.brs(3)

003: s="1": for i=1 to 99: ?i: s=s+s: next
Backtrace:
Function main() As
file/line: /tmp/plugin/D...AA7qjxTe/pkg:/source/test.brs(3)

Local Variables:
global &h0020 rotINTERFACE:ifGlobal
m &h0010 bsc:roAssociativeArray, refcnt=2
s &h8010 bsc:roString (2.1 was String), refcnt=1
i &h0002 Integer val:27
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EnTerr
Roku Guru

Re: YAWRR: A chess-related death

"RokuJoel" wrote:
Nice. Note that on Legacy devices:
Out of Memory when doing string operation. (runtime error &h1a)
Yep. Olden but golden. "They don't build them like that anymore" 8-)

I can has cheeze-bug-er?
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RokuJoel
Binge Watcher

Re: YAWRR: A chess-related death

I can haz filed bug.

- Joel
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EnTerr
Roku Guru

Re: YAWRR: A chess-related death

gracias!
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