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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Alignment problem
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 23:46:55 CST
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> A while ago I also reported a problem with freeing many items in
> no particular order. It became highly noticeable at about 20,000
> items on my machine, and impossible by 50,000. If you want code to
> provoke it I can provide it.  LCC-Win32 acts the same way, but the
> limit is much higher under VC6.

A patch to the code would be preferred; or at least a profiling of
the behavior to identify the locations where the time is spent.
It sounds like some nasty o(n**2) or o(n**3) algorithm issue.

Everyone on the development team has a long list of things they
are working on - so unless someone adopts the problem or someone
provides a patch, it's likely to remain slow.