Understanding Blitz Memory Thread

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Curtastic

It just takes some time to update the amount of memory allocated.

Try this one with waitkey.
The longer you wait before pressing a key the more memory is allocated. (until it allocates about 12000 bytes) Remove waitkey and it says nothing is allocated.

Graphics 640,480,0

GCCollect()
Print "Initial Memory = " + GCMemAlloced()

Local a[10000]

WaitKey()

GCCollect()
Print "Memmory After = " + GCMemAlloced()