Performance comparison of QDialog on stack and heap

[Seishin]

Hi everyone,

I read some articles about memory allocation and free in Qt recently. And I have question about the performance of creating QDialogs on stack (non-pointer) vs on heap (new).

For stack, we just recreate the dialog every time and it should be auto-deleted after we close it, like

void parentObjectClass::onButtonClick(){
  QDialog dialog(this);
  if(dialog.exe()){
    // do something
  }
}

void parentObjectClass::onButtonClick(){
  QDialog dialog(this);
  if(dialog.exe()){
    // do something
  }
}

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I think this one will auto delete the dialog instance every time after the dialog is closed. But every time the dialog need to be re-initialized.

For heap, we pre-initialize the object and reuse it every time, like

// header
Class parentObjectClass{
  //....
  QDialog *dialog;
  //...
};
 
// cpp
void parentObjectClass::initialize(){
  dialog = new QDialog(this);
}
 
void parentObjectClass::onButtonClick(){
  dialog->setDialog(values);
  if(dialog->exe()){
    // do something
  }
}

// header
Class parentObjectClass{
  //....
  QDialog *dialog;
  //...
};

// cpp
void parentObjectClass::initialize(){
  dialog = new QDialog(this);
}

void parentObjectClass::onButtonClick(){
  dialog->setDialog(values);
  if(dialog->exe()){
    // do something
  }
}

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This one just reset the dialog contents every time, but if we have a lot of dialogs, we have to initialize all of them when parentObjectClass instance is created, and they will occupy memory until parentObject is deleted.

Am I right? And which way is better for practical using?
Thanks.