dsimcha: > It's slightly slower than VLAs, > but the difference is negligible since it's still almost never a > threading bottleneck and you still have to do something with the array > you allocated.
I have to compare the performance of both for my use cases (fast allocations of very small arrays, even a just a small number of chars). I think an advantage of stack allocations is that most times the top of the current stack is already in cache L1, so it's warm memory. Bye, bearophile
