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Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ?

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ?
Date 2017-05-21 18:16 +0300
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On 21/05/2017 18:01, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:

> I used to have ZALLOT in the novice-package but I realized that it is redundant --- there is no case in which I don't want to zero out the memory --- so I just renamed it ALLOT ash shown above.

Really?  Why would you zero out the memory if, for instance, you were
going to read from a file into that memory area?  Or if you were going
to copy some other data to it?  The zeroing takes time.

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allot which initialize the alloted space ? Andreas Klimas <klimas@w3group.de> - 2017-05-21 13:50 +0200
  Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 14:13 +0200
  Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-21 08:01 -0700
    Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 18:16 +0300
      Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-21 09:02 -0700
        Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 19:17 +0300
          Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-22 11:22 +0000
          Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-24 08:03 -0700
            Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-24 16:58 +0100
        Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-22 07:40 +0000
          Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 08:02 -0700
            Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-24 16:40 +1000
          Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-05-22 13:27 -0700
      Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-21 17:16 +0100
        Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 19:22 +0300
          Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-21 18:03 +0100
          Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-05-21 20:46 +0200
            Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-21 20:34 +0100
      Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-24 16:41 +1000
  Re: allot which initialize the alloted space ? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-21 08:36 -0700

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