From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Ada memory management seems slow
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:39:55 +0200
Date: 2005-10-13T18:39:55+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2621912.Es2GesFk5Z@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dik0h6$obt$2@news7.svr.pol.co.uk
Makhno wrote:
> I have been given some Ada software to use, and it uses some linked list
> structures. I compiled it using Win32 GNAT.
> These structures are dynamically allocated, and when they are
> de-allocated, it takes up a almost 2 seconds of computing time, even
> though this is a fast PC and the actual memory they use doesn't appear to
> be much (seems less than 1mb according to the task manager).
GNAT uses malloc and free from the C library for memory management - so
performace is the same as with C. Only with C nobody measures the
performance - people just expect malloc and free to be as fast as possible.
> I was wondering what options are available for memory management, or
> whether I am inadvertently using a 'slow' mode.
Well there is indeed a memory debug option - but its off by default.
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-13 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-12 21:49 Ada memory management seems slow Makhno
2005-10-12 22:17 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-13 1:39 ` Anh Vo
2005-10-13 16:39 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2005-10-13 18:39 ` Makhno
2005-10-14 9:59 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-10-14 10:38 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-14 12:06 ` Stephen Leake
2005-10-14 19:21 ` Gautier Write-only
2005-10-15 10:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-10-15 11:10 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-14 19:34 ` tmoran
2005-10-14 14:49 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-16 0:40 ` Robert A Duff
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