> On Apr 13, 2017, at 7:08 PM, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Correct.
Why is it copying the array and freeing instead of resizing the existing block
(realloc)? That sounds crazy but I don’t know how memory managers work.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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