Re: Stack based allocation vs. Dynamic allocation

[gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)]

In article <slrn8j9pno.mk.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>* Gisle S�lensminde wrote:
>
>>The timing will be different on other platforms, but it would surprise 
>>me if heap allocation is faster anywhere. With more realistic 
>>memory usage, the heap allocation will probably be even worse. 
>>The only exception is probably the JVM target, where nearly everything 
>>is on the heap.
>
>There are a lot of 'single-address-space' OS around which do not have these
>limitations. There heap allocation might be much faster than stack
>allocation, simply because they have nothing to do on heap allocation but
>to change the parameters of the stack and often rearrange it otherwise.

I was probably a bit narrow-minded, since only PCs/workstations came
to my mind. For other kinds of systems performance is a very different
matter.

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