[fpc-pascal] Array clearing

[MARCOU Gilles]

Regarding this code:

> SetLength(Array,Length(Array)+1);
> Array[High(Array)] := …

as I understood from (http://wiki.freepascal.org/Dynamic_array <http://wiki.freepascal.org/Dynamic_array>), SetLength will create a copy of the array and free the memory of the shorter array. In this case, a lot of memory operations and copy operations are performed thus degrading the performances of the code. Then it would be unwise to use such strategy: better allocate the size of the array correctly at the beginning of the run, or resize the array by block, to decrease the frequency of such operation:

> SetLength(Array,Length(Array)+N);

Can somebody confirm (or invalidate) this?

Ciao,
Gilles Marcou
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