[Q] Can I somehow facilitate memory management / garbage collection in tight loops?

Hi,

I'm running into memory problems and am looking for some advice.

I run a double tight for-loop in which I draw thousands of shapes. While the for-loops are active I notice that memory is being consumed quickly. When I stop the drawing process and with the resulting Illustrator file still open, I see memory usage fall significantly, back to normal levels. This makes me suspect that it is not the resulting drawing that is consuming memory but the variables I use in the loops. It feels as if garbage collection isn't working properly: as if variables that go out of scopes are not released for cleanup.

I there anything I can/should do about this? I already do a 'save as' action at the end of each inner loop. Should I bring all variables outside of the loops? Should I nullify them?

Any help greatly appreciated.

// Tom

for (var i = 0; i < kNumRows; i++) {
for (var j = 0; j < kNumCols; j++) {

// I use a lot of local variables here

}

// saveas action

}