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Re: VLAs use less stack

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Le 01/09/12 20:18, Rui Maciel a écrit :
> Marc wrote:
>
>> I have to side with Jacob here, malloc and free are expensive enough to
>> make very complicated optimizations worthwile, sadly. I have seen a
>> number of programs where more than half the running time was spent in
>> malloc+free (and sometimes much more than half).
>
> Wouldn't a memory pool help with that?
>
>
> Rui Maciel
>

Of course it would help.

As it would help to use the standard container
"growable buffer" proposed in the C Containers Library.

:-)

But all those things need initializing, setting up, etc.
Stack allocation in most cases, backed by a malloc allocation
is an atractive alternative.

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VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-08-31 12:58 +0200
  Re: VLAs use less stack Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 14:10 +0000
    Re: VLAs use less stack Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2012-08-31 14:13 +0000
    Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-08-31 18:09 +0200
    Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-08-31 18:14 +0200
    Re: VLAs use less stack John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-01 12:24 -0700
      Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-09-01 22:57 +0200
      Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-09-01 22:59 +0200
  Re: VLAs use less stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-08-31 11:42 -0700
    Re: VLAs use less stack Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 10:18 +0000
      Re: VLAs use less stack Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 19:18 +0100
        Re: VLAs use less stack Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 19:19 +0000
        Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-09-01 23:01 +0200
      Re: VLAs use less stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-01 11:36 -0700
        Re: VLAs use less stack Marc <marc.glisse@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 19:05 +0000
    Re: VLAs use less stack jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-09-02 16:56 +0000
      Re: VLAs use less stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-02 14:22 -0700
        Re: VLAs use less stack jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-09-04 00:39 +0000
          Re: VLAs use less stack Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-09-04 10:28 +0200
            Re: VLAs use less stack John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-04 11:31 -0700
          Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-09-04 17:02 +0200
      Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-09-02 23:28 +0200
      Re: VLAs use less stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-02 14:37 -0700
        Re: VLAs use less stack John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-09-02 15:45 -0700
          Re: VLAs use less stack Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2012-09-04 00:03 +0200
  Re: VLAs use less stack jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-09-01 16:09 +0000
    Re: VLAs use less stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-09-01 11:45 -0700
    Re: VLAs use less stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-09-01 23:05 +0200

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