Re: Memory Allocation

[Katie Lauren Lucas <katie@fysh.org>]

Quoting Igor Cabral Corrêa <imortis@uol.com.br>:
> I'll be honest with you: I thought in this question about memory
> allocation 
> when working on my first scientific initiation project, a Matlab-to-C
> GPL 
> compiler. Maybe this tiny speed advantage you said can be interesting in
> the 
> target code of my compiler. It's commom the manipulation of matrices of
> order 
> > 1000. In a program with lots of 1.000.000 iterations loops, the
> minimal 
> speed advantage can make a great diference at the end.

Actually there would be the small speed increase in not mallocing the stuff - 
it will just live in the programs data section. But you'd only gain that once...
 
> I think this mailing list isn't for this kind of questions, but if
> necessary, 
> can I ask some questions about compiler tools here? Flex and yacc has
> many 
> aplications in game scripting too.

As long as you don't re-start that flame war about using DLLs instead of 
scripts...

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