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 there many duplicate strings in your list? Maybe trying to only store unique strings will help reducing the memory size. See my Question about a string pool for a possible (but maybe too simple) answer.