[fpc-pascal]Another pointer related question

[Gabor DEAK JAHN]

At 10/22/01 03:05 PM, you wrote:

Jim,

 > I was afraid it was going to be something like that. I had hoped that by
 > merely referencing the pointer I could just reclaim all the memory it was
 > using, regardless of the structure. Sigh...

There are programing environments where memory management is more or less
automated (garbage collection, reclaiming unused memory, a contemporary
example is Java) but all this comes at a price: lower speed and more memory.
For many situations, this might be an acceptable compromise but just to get
rid of some typing, it's not worth it...

Bye,
    Gábor

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