Peter Dimov said: > William E. Kempf wrote: >> >> It's not just the efficiencies that concern me with dynamic >> allocation. It's the additional points of failure that occur in this >> case as well. For instance, check out the article on embedded coding >> in the most recent CUJ (sorry, don't have the exact title handy). >> Embedded folks generally avoid dynamic memory when ever possible, so >> I'm a little uncomfortable with a solution that mandates that the >> implementation use dynamic allocation of memory. At least, if that's >> the only solution provided. > > This allocation isn't much different than the allocation performed by > pthread_create. An embedded implementation can simply impose an upper > limit on the total number of async_calls and never malloc.
True enough. -- William E. Kempf _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
