Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: alloca wars
Message-ID: <1988Aug7.002334.6987@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <696@ns.UUCP> <697@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 88 00:23:34 GMT

In article <697@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>Speed.  The malloc() on in Sun3 OS, for example, is incredibly slow
>after a few thousand blocks have been allocated...

This just says that whoever wrote Sun's malloc was incompetent.  There is
nothing inherently hard about writing a fast malloc, although it's not
simple, especially for widely-diversified needs.
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