For clarification: Allocate enough for your total allocations, or some good estimate, using malloc_create_zone(), then make your allocations with malloc_zone_malloc(), and finally, destroy the zone in one fell swoop with malloc_destroy_zone(). This should avoid the overhead of all those free()'s.
Paul On Dec 28, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Paul Scott <ap...@the-frontier.org> wrote: > Try using a memory zone, see malloc_zone_malloc (3) and http://jeny.us/vXc3 > (short link to Apple developer page describing malloc_zone_malloc, etc). > > Paul > > On Dec 28, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Nick Rogers <roger...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a tree in memory (all nodes malloc'ed blocks) and when I start >> freeing this large tree, I traverse the tree and free all nodes. >> This becomes cpu intensive and so the progress bar on my sheet doesn't >> animate. >> >> In similar other situations the progress bar animates, when different code >> is executed in the background. >> >> Any ideas on how to make tree freeing process less intensive? >> >> Thanks, >> Nick > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/apple%40the-frontier.org > > This email sent to ap...@the-frontier.org _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
