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Re: Question for Rob on memory usage

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> May 16, 2002
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Andy Serpa writes:
> So if I understand you correctly, the bottom line is I can do any of 
> that sort of stuff without incurring (i.e. doubling) extra memory usage 
> as long as I never alter the elements themselves? 

Yes.

> Basically, I'm going to be reading in the contents of text files into a 
> sequence.  Each file will equal one element (top-level) of the sequence. 
> But sometimes it will want to load in a file it already has loaded in 
> earlier in the sequence, so I want to be able to just  scan the contents 
> of the existing sequence for the filename that is being requested 
> (filename is also stored), and if it is already loaded in, then just 
> append to the sequence that same element again instead of actually 
> loading in the file again and wasting memory...

That should work fine.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com