Re: dynamic vs static tasks allocation

[Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:25:50 -0700 (PDT), Stribor40 <ikamzic@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>If you know ahead of time how many tasks will be needed is it better to create tasks dynamically with new operator or just statically?
>
>Which is way is recommended and why even bother allocating dynamically?

	Avionics stuff creates all processes (and memory structures) during
initialization -- the only reason for dynamic task creation would be if the
/number of specific tasks/ is determined from a startup configuration file
-- otherwise they are essentially statically determined.

	But for something like a simulation -> simplistic example: say animal
interaction -- creating a dynamic task each time an animal is "born" might
be a scheme (though such are likely more easily run using a before/after
array of the critters in a loop -- not to mention having to "teach" the new
one about the rest of the pack).

	Knowing how many are needed (without a configuration file) seems, to
me, to imply declaring a fixed array of them at compile time.
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