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DeviceSparseMatrix.Dispose
Frees the three device buffers.
public void Dispose()
Example — the shape a caller writes.
using Lodestar.Gpu.Compute;
using var context = GpuContext.Create(preferCpu: true);
bool named = context.DeviceName.Length > 0; // => True
Remarks — Row pointers, column indices and values are three separate allocations, and all three go together: a CSR matrix missing one of them describes nothing.
using is the intended spelling. Device memory is not reclaimed by the garbage collector, so a
block that is dropped rather than disposed stays allocated on the accelerator until the process
ends — which on a card with a few gigabytes is a leak that a long-running service notices.
Applies to — net10.0, netstandard2.1.
See also — DeviceSparseMatrix.