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Re: Handles and Pointers [was: performance issues]


On Mar 31, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Lane Roathe wrote:

On 3/30/05 3:06 PM, steve zellers didst favor us with:

Also, I saw another comment about using GetPtrSize - if at all possible, you
should maintain the size of your allocation if you'll think you'll need it
later.  GetPtrSize is rather inefficient. 

While it's true that the call is less efficient than a lookup, this is
not an optimization that is worthwhile unless it's in a very tight loop
or other really time intensive/sensitive piece of code.


..
is (imho) a waste of time to covert your code to malloc/free. Doesn't by
you anything except a few nanoseconds per call; instead you could spend

Um, if you multiply those few nanoseconds by the the literally hundreds of users of the mac platform, you'll see that there certainly is a potential for real CPU savings, worldwide.

:-)

--smz

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