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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Memory usage under Turbo Pascal 5
Keywords: Memory in use, Turbo pascal 5
Message-ID: <2662@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 89 16:31:42 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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A user I know is working on a Turbo Pascal application that is getting a
bit big as far as memory usage goes.  Since there is a variable amount of
data in memory at any point in time during execution, we're having trouble
trying to figure out how much memory this application is using at certain
critical points.

She's an intermediate TP5 user, I'm an observer (!).  How do you TP5
wizards check for memory in use (or, alternatively, free memory) at given
points in your programs?  We're looking for a way that we can generate
such a report at arbitrary points in the source code (for the beta 
version, of course, not the finished product!), so we can see where a
better approach to data handling might be warranted.  Comments, 
suggestions, war stories, etc. all appreciated.  Email unless you feel
it's generally useful; I'm not sure how often this type of query arises.

"Moby" Dick O'Connor
Washington Department of Fisheries
Olympia, Washington  98504
Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu
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