Re: void* type

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From: Konrad Schwarz
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 13:20

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In article <4jmcnh$lqk@solutions.solon.com>, Claus Hirth <hirth@wand.franken.de> writes:
|> J. Kanze (kanze@gabi-soft.fr) wrote:
|> 
|> : BTW, I've found that a small optimizing trick in functions like this can
|> : sometimes work wonders for performance:
|> 
|> :     int
|> :     swap( void* a , void* b , size_t sz )
|> :     {
|> :         unsigned char   buffer[ EXPECTEDMAXSIZE ] ;
|> 
|> An even smaller "trick" : use a static array instead.

What improvement do you hope to gain with a static array?

Konrad Schwarz

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Date: 1 Apr 1996 07:20:21 -0600
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