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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jimad
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: Special-purpose-heap-managers - references, FTP?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.183511.22551@microsoft.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:35:11 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec18.110536.11510@daimi.aau.dk> <rmartin.725043829@thor>
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- In article <rmartin.725043829@thor> rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes:
- |I have made use of special purpose heap managers many times. They are
- |easy to construct, and much faster than the general purpose
- |(new/delete, malloc/free) type allocators. How much your application
- |will benefit from using them depends a lot on how much allocation you
- |perform.
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- Agreed. The only disadvantage is that they are special purpose not general
- purpose. Perhaps the right approach is to introduce special purpose allocators
- into a program where and when profiling indicates the need.
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