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Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length

From Kaz Kylheku <563-365-8930@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length
Date 2021-07-24 01:07 +0000
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On 2021-07-19, dfs <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
> On 7/19/21 2:01 PM, Bart wrote:
>> On 19/07/2021 17:50, dfs wrote:
>>> Loaded a list of words into an array.
>>>
>>> The 370103 words came from https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
>>> file = words_alpha.txt
>>>
>>> Tested a couple memory allocation 'strategies' during loading:
>>>
>>> 1. allocate the strlen() of each word
>>> 2. allocate a fixed length (len of longest word = 32)
>>>
>>> I figured getting strlen(word) each time would be slower than 
>>> allocating a fixed amt of memory, but that wasn't the case.
>>>
>>> Strategy 2 is significantly slower, and uses nearly 3x the memory.
>
> Any thoughts on this?

It must be that malloc is decently optimized for very small object sizes?

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Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 12:50 -0400
  Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-07-19 19:01 +0100
    Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 14:29 -0400
      Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-07-19 19:49 +0100
        Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 18:01 -0400
          Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-07-19 23:25 +0100
      Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-07-19 20:00 +0000
        Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Branimir Maksimovic <branimir.maksimovic@gmail.com> - 2021-07-19 23:29 +0000
      Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-20 00:30 +0100
        Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 20:40 -0400
          Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-20 17:00 +0000
      Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Kaz Kylheku <563-365-8930@kylheku.com> - 2021-07-24 01:07 +0000
  Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-07-19 21:35 +0200
    Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 18:02 -0400
  Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Ike Naar <ike@rie.sdf.org> - 2021-07-19 21:11 +0000
    Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 18:03 -0400
      Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Ike Naar <ike@sdf.org> - 2021-07-20 05:28 +0000
  Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 18:21 -0400
    Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2021-07-19 23:29 +0100
      Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-19 18:40 -0400
  Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2021-07-20 11:44 +1000
  Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2021-07-20 22:15 +0000
    Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-20 20:22 -0400
      Re: Allocate length of word vs fixed length dfs <nospam@dfs.com> - 2021-07-21 23:23 -0400

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