No, don't know Delphi-Talk Yes, I am worried about the memory allocation stuff Yes, and fragmentation and Yes, I use a lot of string stuff So how can I deal efficiently with strings?
Wayne Roser Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> on Monday, 6 March 2006 at 2:53 p.m. +0000 wrote: >Robert Meek wrote: >> You said below: "You know the admonition about increasing a >> string's length by one >> character at a time? The same goes for dynamic arrays." >> But no, I don't believe I ever heard about that? > >I'm sure you have. It was just a topic over on Delphi-Talk this weekend, >for instance. Each time you change a string's length, you force a new >memory allocation and a copy of the old string into the new one. This >can lead to memory fragmentation, and it can also waste time. > >-- >Rob _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
