On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 08:16:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/24/2015 12:23 AM, John Colvin wrote:
Except of course that alloca is a lot cheaper than malloc/free.
That's not necessarily true. But in any case, go ahead and use
it if you like. Just prepare to benchmark and be disappointed
:-)
Do you have a guess for why and when it could not be faster than
malloc in times?
I have some difficulty imagining a reason (yet I have sometimes
found malloc faster than aligned_malloc which is another odd
thing).
