TStringList of objects taking up tons of memory in Delphi XE

Question

I\'m working on a simulation program.

One of the first things the program does is read in a huge file (28 mb, about 79\'000 lines,), parse each line (about 150 field

Answer 1

Are you sure you don't suffer from a case of memory fragementation?

Be sure to use the latest FastMM (currently 4.97), then take a look at the UsageTrackerDemo demo that contains a memory map form showing the actual usage of the Delphi memory.

Finally take a look at VMMap that shows you how your process memory is used.