First of all, thanks for your answer. I tried to make the example as simple as possible - and simply forgot to allocate the memory :$
> Simply replacing "object" by "class" is not sufficient, because classes > need to be used differently than objects. Right, it actually needs a bit of modification in the destructor. ;-) >objects aren't used by that many persons As I started / learned programming with TurboPascal, I habitually use objects, but is there a big difference for "the normal user", if advanced class features aren't used? Is there a difference in speed / memory consumption / code size between objects and classes? Back to generics: How much does a specialized generic class / object differ from a class / object, that is directly programmed (not as generic), in the binary code ? The reason for my question is that I often read that you shouldn't use generics if a programm heavily depends on speed (like 3D-games). So is this really an issue in FreePascal (like it seems to be in C-like languages) and how big is the difference in speed - if there is any? Many questions, but hopefully it will make things more clear to me. Thanks A.v.P. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
