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- From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Gem List (fwd)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 11:10:10 +0100 (BST)
- In-Reply-To: <2e2cfd5016cbf5@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> from "Michel Forget" at Jul 19, 94 09:57:36 pm
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- > Sigh. _I_ use it. (Yes, I feel stupid now, since now at least one reason
- > why I should not.) Using malloc() is only a delay, though, for TOS 1.0
- > users. If you allocate a lot of memory (like MasterBrowse does) then
- > malloc() will end up calling Malloc() more that sixteen times, and you
- > can say bye-bye to TOS 1.0. Is there -another- reason why I should not
- > use it?
- >
- >
- Hmm, I've got an application which is used regularly (daily?) by perhaps 200
- people and it uses malloc and related functions heavily. I've had no
- complaints from Tos 1.0 users. And yes, at times it does allocate large
- chunks of memory. If you're worried about using more than 16 chunks at the
- same time then simply increase the size of block that malloc requests
- whenever it calls Malloc.
-
- --
- Kevin O'Donovan
- abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk
- kebab@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
- Red meat isn't bad for you. Fuzzy blue-green meat is bad for you.
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