On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 05:49 -0800, Howard Chu wrote: > Some modern mallocs are good, but stack-based allocation is still better > a lot of the time. Especially for temporary variables that are just > going to be discarded after a few computations.
Right. And remember it's not just the code managing the heap, but also the extra work involved in ensuring that the memory is freed again. This can mean reworking functions, changing code paths, etc. I'm not saying that the performance difference would be significant: without testing it's difficult to guess. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
