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Where do all those heap variables come from? [message #53845]

Sun, 06 May 2007 22:15

Robbie
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Registered: February 2006

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I've been writing a library which has some common inheritance with
iTools, but it has a great deal less functionality. Just like iTools,
it will probably take years of some poor persons life to work out what
upon earth I have done.

I'm beginning to feel comfortable that 400 heap variables must spring
into existence just so I can display a curve. However, this isn't as
disconcerting as the 8000 heap variables required for an iPlot.

At what point would the number of heap variables become worrying for
such a simple task?
I often ask myself, where do all of these variables come from?
Is it feasible to write a lightweight version of things like Hashtable
and IDLitData in C?

Robbie

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