William E. Kempf wrote: > > It's not just the efficiencies that concern me with dynamic > allocation. It's the additional points of failure that occur in this > case as well. For instance, check out the article on embedded coding > in the most recent CUJ (sorry, don't have the exact title handy). > Embedded folks generally avoid dynamic memory when ever possible, so > I'm a little uncomfortable with a solution that mandates that the > implementation use dynamic allocation of memory. At least, if that's > the only solution provided.
This allocation isn't much different than the allocation performed by pthread_create. An embedded implementation can simply impose an upper limit on the total number of async_calls and never malloc. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
