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From: Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@frqnet.de>
Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
Date: 1999/05/04
Date: 1999-05-04T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <372ED1C4.9A1AE1B2@frqnet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 372E7475.6D884152@aasaa.ofe.org


David Starner wrote:
> 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.

Well efficency isn't my biggest concern, I fear the deallocation which
may produce memory leaks.

> 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.

Not embedded systems but message handling systems for air traffic
control which are designed for 99,995% availability. This means
rebooting maximum once a year, not twice a day like with M$-Windows.

So, does anybody know more details about unbounded_strings? How does it
work? Does it recycle deallocated memory by 100%? If not I'll better
stay away from it.


Greetings,

AW
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-05-04  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 ` dennison
1999-05-04  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-04  0:00     ` dennison
1999-05-10  0:00       ` Tucker Taft
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
1999-05-04  0:00         ` Andreas Winckler [this message]
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
1999-05-04  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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