> Can anyone recommend a method to search a whole drive, of arbitrary > size, without running out of memory.
I don't know seen SysTools, but I worked analysing logfiles for a year. All containertypes (TList TObjectList and TstringList included) that have a single array as internal datastructure become prone to fragmentation or slowdowns when the number of elements get bigger. A rule of thumb border is 50k-500k elements. So a simple plan would be: - analyse what functionality is really used of TStringlist, since there is a lot of functionality there. - Take a more scalable containertype and graft it into SysTools. - Avoid TStringList in own code, or at least mark such code in documentation and memory as scalability risk :-) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
