[DUG] Dumb Friday Question

[Moretti, Giovanni]

>  Tim Jarvis [Tim.Jarvis at codegear.com] wrote:

>  Firstly I agree with the sentiment that you should try and avoid
creating objects 

>> in one place and freeing in another ...

 

This whole discussion is close to my heart. I've got a similar horrible
situation where I've got a factory that produce objects that have 3D
coordinates and these are passed around, may have their coordinates
updated, and may end up get fed to a genetic optimiser, which may
replicate the object (possibly many times) for the next generation.
I've had to clone the objects which isn't pleasant. It's so easy with
numbers/records and so messy with objects ...
 
It's made me want to move to a language that has proper, transparent
garbage collection. Anyone remember Lisp?
 
Time to go out into the sunshine and forget about memory management :-)
It's a glorious afternoon in Palmerston North - contrary to popular
belief, we do have them ...
 
Cheers
Giovanni
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