Need Tutorial on Memory Usage VB5 & 6

[Bob Kochem]

Can someone point me at a tutorial or other reference on how VB 5 &/or 6
consumes memory and what its limits are? [ The built-in Help doesn't seem to
cover this.]

I have a program in VB5 that has been around a while and grown quite a bit.
I am starting to run into compile-time errors like "Too many local dynamic
variables" I fixed that one by re-declaring some variables as Static but I'm
shooting in the dark.

Where can I find the various ways VB consumes memory, and what limits it
runs into?

And as a general question - is VB6 the same as VB5 in this regard? Or, is it
more 'robust'?

Thanks a lot!

Bob Kochem

[Asperamanca]

> And as a general question - is VB6 the same as VB5 in this regard? Or, is it

more 'robust'?

The only thing in this direction I encountered is a limitation of the
function length, to about 64KByte. Well, that was a very special case.
The projects I work on are pretty big (several MB of source code), but
rather well partitioned in controls, many modules of all kinds, and
mostly structured with lots of subs and functions, too. The maximum
number of local variables I ever used must be around 30. The maximum
number of module-global variables maybe 100. Loads of constants, types
and enum declarations, which are mostly public. Ah, yes, there is a
limitation to the complexity of an If statement, mine had more that 20
ANDs before the compiler complained.
There are some problems once a project group gets that large (e.g. I
can't build the whole group from VB anymore, I have to do it on
command line), but nothing like you mentioned.

Robert