On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Write a procedure or function that takes a 'self' pointer to the data. This is > basically what methods are at the end of the day. > > If you want better allocation performance, you can always refactor the memory > allocation routines too. If FPC follows Delphi's model, there will be a record > that holds the memort allocation routines. Have a look for the record type > TMemoryManager that will probably be located in System or Sysinit unit. > Altering the way these routines work can greatly improve speed and resource > usage. > > One other point.... you really should use 'is' and not 'MyObject.ClassType'. > Surely: > > if ( myinst is TButton ) then begin > ... > end; > > looks less ugly than: > > if ( myinst.ClassType = TButton ) then ... ; This is not entirely correct. The latter will return false for a descendent of TButton, while the former will give true. The exact statement corresponding to the 'is' operator is if myinst.Inheritsfrom(TButton) then ... ; Just crossing the t's and dotting the i's... Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
