Re: [xml] too many mallocs?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:19:55PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:38 PM
> >
> >   Well some people suggested dropping xmlMalloc/xmlFree
> > to use alloca() in some context where the result is discarded 
> > anyway, but I'm not too fond of this.
>
> alloca is much more efficient on most platforms, as it allocs out of the
> stack, saving heap free list manipulation/searching.

  and avoiding reentrancy allocation work on threaded apps too

> What hesitations do you have about alloca?

  portability, and making sure it won't break existing code.

Daniel

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