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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:11:41 GMT
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Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> 
> > Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > >
> > > CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> > >
> > > > On my 486/80 65M system with gcc or lcc insertion of 10000 items
> > > > or more has a serious pause during program exit, when hshkill is
> > > > called, which in turn calls the hshfreefn and thence free for each
> > > > item.  The pause becomes oppressive for larger amounts of
> > > > insertions, and is **much** longer than the time to insert.  The
> > > > items are freed in no particular order.
> > >
> > > Would you mind posting your test program?
> >
> > I believe I sent it to you.
> 
> And I posted my analysis of the speed.  If you didn't see it,
> check Google.

My mind is going :-) I didn't realize that that was specifically
of my code, I though it was a generic malloc/free test.  At any
rate I have decided to ignore the problem, because it more or less
goes away with VC6, so it isn't my fault.  And it doesn't really
become noticeable until 50,000 or so entries.

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