> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fitzpatrick, Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 2:21 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: Why does MemPtrNew(1) eat up 16 bytes?
>
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> Tiny allocations are wasteful on most operating systems. If I were to
Thanks for confirming my beliefs, Joe. I'm experiencing both symptoms of
tiny allocations (15-20 strings of 3-5 chars in length)... lots of dynamic
heap wasted in 'padding', and ugly fragmentation. I'm going to allocate my
own big block of space, and grow it in 50-100 byte increments as necessary!
-Jeff
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