2 Sep
2005
2 Sep
'05
12:08 p.m.
Hello Alistair, Thursday, September 01, 2005, 6:36:09 PM, you wrote: AB> The heap profile graph for this program shows an initial peak, and AB> then the graph is flat at 8Mbytes, which I think is the space AB> allocated to the two STArrays (2 arrays, 1 million chars each, 4 bytes AB> per char?). So it looks as though any allocation for the loop function AB> is GC'd very soon after it's allocated. Char uses 4 bytes because it must hold any Unicode character, which is about 1 million :) use Word8 or CChar -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com