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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How expensive (runtime) is memory allocation?
Message-ID: <8802010721.AA01335@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 1 Feb 88 07:21:49 GMT
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>        The title about says it all.  I am dynamically allocating and
>deallocating drawing sequences and am concerned about the speed of the
>memory allocations and deallocations I'm implementing.  Anyone know anything
>about this?

	Quite fast.  Of course, the blitter is fast too, so allocating
and deallocating memory every time you do a draw sequence may halve the 
speed of the drawing.  I suggest you do something intelligent... keep buffers
around and only allocate for sequences that take large amounts of memory.

					-Matt