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Article #5460Re: Macintosh C comparisons?
From: Jim Budler
Date: Sat, 03 May 1986 17:16
Date: Sat, 03 May 1986 17:16
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In article <464@Shasta.ARPA> gus@Shasta.ARPA (Gus Fernandez) writes:
>Now some might say that you really shouldn't be using standard C routines
>for Mac code. The storage allocation primitives, however, are arguably
>an exception which should not be overlooked. These routines SHOULD be
>optimized to be as fast as possible and still use the Mac heap architecture.
>The best way to do this is to provide a two-level memory allocation heirarchy
>which allocates LARGE blocks from the memory manager, and splits these up
>into small blocks as requested by the user.
Sounds like a surefire way to run out of memory. I suggest you remove the
term 'the best' above and replace it with something like 'one way I like'.
--
Jim Budler
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Macintosh C comparisons? Message-ID: <11566@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-May-86 13:16:31 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.11566 Posted: Sat May 3 13:16:31 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 4-May-86 07:02:10 EDT References: <2392@decwrl.DEC.COM> <336@tolerant.UUCP> <1454@garfield.columbia.edu> <464@Shasta.ARPA> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 17