alloca wars

[Henry Spencer]

In article <697 at goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>Speed.  The malloc() on in Sun3 OS, for example, is incredibly slow
>after a few thousand blocks have been allocated...

This just says that whoever wrote Sun's malloc was incompetent.  There is
nothing inherently hard about writing a fast malloc, although it's not
simple, especially for widely-diversified needs.
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