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Re: FSDirectorySize code finished



On 10/30/05 4:03 PM, Steve Baxter didst favor us with:

> I would use FSRefs by value here rather than storing pointers, i.e.
> store the actual FSRefs in the vector rather than a pointer to a
> FSRef.  The overhead of copying 80 bytes will be so small as to be
> unmeasureable.  You may actually find that the copy overhead is less
> than the malloc() overhead of allocating 80 bytes (but only Shark
> will tell you).

Except it's not either/or. If you store pointers, such as is the case with a
CF widget or a vector of FSRef pointers, once you allocate the memory for 80
bytes, you still have to copy the FSRef into the allocated memory.

Larry

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