On Nov 17, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Thomas Lee wrote: > Portability may also be an issue to take into consideration:
Of course -- but so is anno domini... the eskimo.com FAQ is (C) 1995, and the neohapsis.com page just points to the eskimo.com one: > http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q7.32.html > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2001-05/1305.html In 2006, I'm not sure the need to avoid alloca is anywhere as strong. Sure, it could be wrapped into a LOCALLOC macro (with a companion LOCFREE one), the macro expanding to alloca/nothing on systems which do have alloca and to malloc/free elsewhere -- this would keep the sources just as cluttered, but still speed things up where feasible. E.g., on my iBook, a silly benchmark just freeing and allocating 80,000 hunks of 1000 bytes takes 13ms with alloca, 57 without... Alex _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
