On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Charl wrote:
> Hi > > I have been wondering about creating a unit with classes representing > normal variable types, like a TIntegerObj, TCharacterObj, etc. The idea > comes from Java, and I have found some occations when this would have > been very helpful. > > Basically I have two question about this: Is there something similar > already in the FCL? No. > And, what is the performance issues in FP about creating new objects? > (example:, what kind of performance issues would there be when you > create and work with a TObjectList with loads of TIntegerObj instances, > instead of a normal TList containing integer pointers) There would be a serious slowdown, as each object must be allocated on the heap. If you want to do such a thing, I suggest you write a separate heapmanager, which does some optimization for small blocks. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
