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Re: FSDirectorySize code finished



on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:09:00, Steve Baxter <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 30 Oct 2005, at 21:31, Laurence Harris wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>
> True, true.

Or FSGetCatalogInfo[Bulk] could do this copy itself.

Mike


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