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Subject: Re: many exceptions cause memory leak?
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:13:23 GMT
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:59:36 -0400, Robert Klungle <bklungle@adelphia.net>  
wrote:

>  We were told by the compiler vendor this was done to
> improve the dynamic memory allocation performance. Take it for what it is
> worth.

Sounds like an old Alsys compiler that grabbed large chunks of memory,  
then managed the allocated chunks as the application's heap.  This as  
opposed to using malloc directly.

- Ed