> is it possible to convert any and all algorithms to stack based ones and thus
> avoid memory leaks?
No, not really. If you keep the allocated things and free them in
reverse order on exit, then well yes, but practically, early free()
frees memory for reuse on low memory systems. In this sense n
Paddy wrote:
> werty wrote:
> > Apples/oranges ? programmers are making very little $$ today .
> >Thats software ! No one is makin money on obsolete Forth ,
> > so why a comparisom ?
> >
> > Ultimately the best OpSys will be free and millions of lines of code
> > obsoleted . Because n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> John Doty:
> > Yes. The efficient exact algorithms for this problem use *partial*
> > sorts. The Forth one from the FSL is of this class (although I know of
> > two better ones for big arrays). But it's tough to beat the efficiency
> > of the approximate histogram-based