Re: Let's get this finished

qrczak@knm.org.pl (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk) wrote,

My current strategy is to use malloc directly instead of alloca. If there was a faster alloca allocator, it could make sense to make a guess about the size and use alloca, resorting to malloc if it didn't fit. It would have to be significantly faster to think about making it more complex at all. The conversion itself can be a larger overhead than malloc.

If there were a faster alloca, it would still speed up the common case where there is no conversion or the initial size estimate is correct. Cheers, Manuel