Delphi memory management design strategies : Object or Interface ?

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Published on 2010-03-31T07:28:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 7:33 UTC
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Regarding Delphi memory management, what are your design strategies ?

What are the use cases where you prefer to create and release Objects manually ?
What are the uses cases where Interfaces, InterfacedObjects, and their reference counting mechanism will be prefered ?

Do you have identified some traps or difficulties with reference counted objects ?

Thanks for sharing your experience here.

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