From: David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>
Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
Date: 1999/05/03
Date: 1999-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <372E7475.6D884152@aasaa.ofe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 372D8919.8CE17514@frqnet.de
Andreas Winckler wrote:
>
> Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
> > I don't recommend using a heap-based solution (type Unbounded_String)
> > unless you have a compelling need to.
>
> Why? Where's the problem with it? Because high availability is an issue
> for me I would be interested in details.
I believe he was talking about efficency. Dynamic storage allocations (a
superset of heap-based solution) are very inefficent, or at least so my
Fortran 77 teacher says. I would recommend checking to see if it's a
worry before going out of your way in the name of efficency. I
personally have only had one efficency problem, and that ran about
10,000 times too slow due to my mis-estimation of the problem size.
YMMV, especially if you're not a student.
The only other thing I can think he might have been talking about is
that heap-based solutions are hard to use on embedded systems and stuff
like that, which might be a worry if you're working on those things.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-05-03 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-02 0:00 Beginner's questions Marco Schmidt
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Marco Schmidt
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-03 0:00 ` David Starner [this message]
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-03 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-04 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-07 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-08 0:00 ` ak
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