On 04/10/2007, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03 October 2007 17:01, Yongwei Wu wrote: > > > >> The only real solution is to avoid alloca() and use malloc() everywhere. > > > > I do not like heap allocation here, which is vastly slower, and will > > really make the Windows fix very, very ugly. > > "Slow" is a relative term. Given that this allocation is only necessary > when we're about to go out to the disk to perform a 'stat' operation, I > believe that the (actually fairly small) amount of time it takes the heap > allocater to pull a chunk off a linked-list is likely to be entirely > insignificant compared to the time required by the I/O.
Your belief is true. Against my wishes, tests show that although malloc/free may be about 100 times slower than alloca, stat is again 100 times slower than malloc/free on my box. Best regards, Yongwei -- Wu Yongwei URL: http://wyw.dcweb.cn/ _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
