On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:38:09PM +0100, Pieter Grimmerink wrote: > All this would cause constant allocating and freeing of memory. > Doesn't this cause heap fragmentation very quickly? > Or am I just being paranoid?
I guess you know your device better than I. But with a modern well-designed memory allocator, memory fragmentation is almost never an issue in practice (overhead of a few percent, IIRC), and in this case in particular, it sounds like you're talking about allocating/deallocating the same size block over and over, which shouldn't cause memory fragmentation at all... I think I'd check for this empirically before getting too worried. (It's not that hard; you just wrap malloc/free to keep a counter of what you think is supposed to be allocated, then compare to what the OS thinks is allocated.) -- Nathaniel -- I have my moments. And soon, I will have yours, too. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
