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From: mjl@alison.at (Martin J. Laubach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:  free() in SAS C
Message-ID: <mjl.8600@alison.at>
Date: 6 May 91 19:13:06 GMT
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In article <dillon.7247@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>, Matthew Dillon writes:

|     Actually, AllocMem & FreeMem are *faster* than SAS/C's
|     malloc & free.

  Nevertheless AllocMem() is quite slow when you are doing more than a few
allocations. I was able to speed a program of mine doing about 14000 small
allocs from something like two minutes to about 30 seconds by using a
simple pool manager.

  Thus: Use AllocMem() as long as you like, but when doing lots of similar
small allocs, use a custom pool routine.


	mjl