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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>> </SPAN>Tim Jarvis
[Tim.Jarvis@codegear.com]<SPAN class=658355104-04052007>
wrote:</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>> </SPAN>Firstly I agree with the sentiment
that you should try and avoid creating objects </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>>> </SPAN>in one place and freeing in
another<SPAN class=658355104-04052007> ...</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This whole discussion is close to my heart<SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>. </SPAN>I've <SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>got</SPAN> <SPAN class=658355104-04052007>a
</SPAN>similar <SPAN class=658355104-04052007>horrible </SPAN>situation
where <SPAN class=658355104-04052007>I've got </SPAN>a factory t<SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>hat</SPAN> produce objects that have 3D coordinates and
these are passed around<SPAN class=658355104-04052007>, may have their
coordinates updated, </SPAN>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 <SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>which isn't pleasant. I</SPAN>t's so easy with
numbers/records and so messy with objects ...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=658355104-04052007>It's made me want to
move to a language that has proper, transparent garbage collection. Anyone
remember Lisp?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007></SPAN></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=658355104-04052007><FONT face=Arial>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
...</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007></SPAN></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>Cheers</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=658355104-04052007>Giovanni</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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