Re: access type question (maybe a little silly)

["Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>]

"David Starner" <dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message
news:8so92d$8a23@news.cis.okstate.edu...
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:09:33 -0500, Pat Rogers wrote:
> >If you're running an application that executes for a very long
time,
> >then you might want to do the reclamation.  If you're running a
> >desktop, one-off, short-lived application, then it probably won't
be
> >worth the effort.
>
> I've never seen a program big enough to need access types that
wasn't
> worth it to try and collect it.

Depends on what you're writing.  In the last twenty years I've written
many Ada desktop programs that didn't need to bother with reclamation.
Many were allocator-intensive.

> I have, on the other hand, seen several
> small programs become quite a nuiscence by eating up hundreds of
megabytes
> of memory in seconds. If you've got a program that inputs files,
remember
> that the next guy will try to load a 100 MB picture/a half gig of
mp3s/
> the collected works of Shakespeare through your program.

But that wouldn't be a "one-off" program.