[DGD] Question about object references

[Felix A. Croes]

Steve Wooster <sw_mlists at xprt.net> wrote:

>      I just remembered another question I had... an object isn't loaded 
> from the swap-file unless a function is called in it, right? For example, 
> if I had a list of, say, 10000 objects, and I wanted to process it (maybe 
> calling call_outs or something each with a different object as an argument) 
> without calling functions in the object or looking at their status or 
> anything like that, I could iterate through the whole array without using 
> much more memory than what the array takes, right? Thanks.

As long as you don't access the objects themselves, you can safely
manipulate an array of them (including testing whether objects have
been destructed) without loading any into memory.

Regards,
Dworkin