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From: | sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) |
Message-Id: | <10203022059.AA24801@clio.rice.edu> |
Subject: | Re: Malloc/free DJGPP code |
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Date: | Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:59:56 -0600 (CST) |
In-Reply-To: | <1438-Sat02Mar2002205944+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Mar 02, 2002 08:59:44 PM |
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> > Eli asked to see the one Martin likes, but hasn't commented (didn't like > > the faster patch so much) - maybe he didn't like the one liner either :-) > > I like the one liner, and am actually using it for the past few weeks. Okay, two votes for the one liner, and some testing too ... > I think the speed difference is insignificant, but perhaps someone > could time that and see. It won't be measurable probably. I did an instruction count and that line will add about 50 instructions (mostly simple, so probably around 50 clocks) to each malloc which must call sbrk. Each brk/sbrk that doesn't call DPMI is about 20 or so instructions. It really doesn't matter which way we do it, which is why I asked ...
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