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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Memory chunks: are they much speed-up?
Date: 24 Jan 2003 09:37:12 -0500
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porton@ex-code.com (Victor Porton) writes:

> Is allocating memory in chunks by several (small) objects at once a 
> significant speed-up (compared to standard allocators) in typical Ada 
> impl.?

It might be. Depends on whether the standard allocator already does
that. So you'll have to test and see; the answer will vary with
compiler & os & target chip.

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-- Stephe