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From: Elliott Oti <oti AT phys DOT uu DOT nl>
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On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Matthew Conte wrote:

> Quick question: is access to a dynamically allocated array slower than a
> static global array, or are they the same?

Depends. The speed of memory access depends on whether the accessed memory
is also in the cache, and whether that is more likely for static data in
your program code or globally allocated memory depends on your program
behaviour -- where it spends more time in, etc. All things being equal, it
should make no difference.

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