On Tuesday 26 March 2002 16:25, kevin lyda wrote:
> essentially i'd like a way to tell the guts of malloc (w/o really
> touching them) to reserve the memory - including the memory it needs to
> do accounting for all the calls i'm going to make.
How is this different from doing all your allocation up front in separate
mallocs? Seems pointless. The system is going to have to reserve all the
memory, so now you're holding more memory for longer - a waste of system
resources in other words.
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