Re: EWCMM crashes my App

As an example, if you load into a StringGrid a CSV files of 20 MB your app will take more than 1 GB!
According to you this is not memory fragmentation but memory overhead.
Is this correct or am I wrong again please? 

That will depend on how the CSV is loaded, if it has temporary
structures that may be fragmentation, if it's a clean state
automaton with no intermediate structures, it could be overhead.
To differentiate between the two objectively, a solution could be
to have a look at how much actual memory is used (for content)
against how much is allocated (from windows).
With RecyclerMM snapshot feature you can have that info, another
source could be MemProof's resource counter (it is well possible
that the StringGrid actually allocates a lot of useless stuff,
in which case it would be StringGrid's overhead and not MM overhead).

If I don't have any clear answer, it's because I haven't been
using a VCL Grid (string or not) since the Delphi 3-4 days :p

Eric
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