I. Szczesniak wrote:
> Those consumers who pass more than 8MB of data to libgmp will require > a larger stack - which is already the case for many libc functions, > too. Which functions from the Standard C Library require the application programmer to explicitly change the default stack size ? >> This does not sound like a practical approach to me. > > It doesn't sound like a practical approach to cripple all consumers of > libgmp. libgmp is about performance and not about slowing consumers > down by artificial means. While i do not really understand the "slowing consumers down by artificial means" comment, I am certain that all the subscribers to this mailing list (myself included) would greatly appreciate a comparison between the performance of GNU MP with alloca(3C) as opposed to GNU MP with malloc(3C). --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
