Lowering Memory usage

[CuddlyKittens11]

Okay guys, I'm trying to make a simple animation program, so I have these this in my code to hold the data for what has been "painted" to each frame

// Holds the artwork, max of 1000 frames, and 10,000 possible cells for each frame
static public cell cells[][] = new cell[1000][10000];

// The cell class
static public class cell {
	public short x;
	public short y;
	public byte value;
		
	public cell(short xVal, short yVal, byte val) {
		x = xVal;
		y = yVal;
		value = val;
	}
}

Right now, when I run the built JAR, the Task Manager says I'm using 76,244KBs, witch roughly equates to a usage of 74.45MBs. I have 2GB of Ram, but I realy don't like the number of MBs in use.

Any tips?

[snotmare]

Do you really need to keep a reference to each cell? Can you make use of your cell and then discard it when you're done?

I suppose you might need to post some more of what you're using your cells for.

[CuddlyKittens11]

Well, what I'd like to do is when the user adds a value to the cell, or adds a new frame, it then adds that cell/frame into the memory.

But I know here at the beginning of my program is when the memory is getting populated, I'd rather populate when I need to.

[snotmare]

Are you creating somewhat of a canvas like you would have in a paint program, where a user draws on to the canvas and you have to set the value for each pixel?

You need to provide more information for what you're trying to do. I wonder if you really need to store 10000000 cells all at once, but I can't tell you for sure until you fully explain what you're trying to do :).

[CuddlyKittens11]

Yeah, it essentially is a painting program. I'd really prefer not to provide much more code.

I'm just wondering if there is anything I can do to create dynamic memory when it's needed, not at the initialization of a program.

[snotmare]

Well, with the info you've shared, about all I can suggest is that you create your array, but not fill the elements until you need them. Look into the concept of "lazy loading". Essentially, it's like this...

private MyClass value;
private MyClass getValue(){
   if(value == null){
       value = new MyClass();
   }
   return value;
}

[JosAH]

What are you going to do with all those Cells? Display them one by one?

kind regards,

Jos