[PATCH 2 of 2] osutil.c: replace alloca() with malloc() and remove <alloca.h>

Michael Gebetsroither gebi at sbox.tugraz.at
Sun Oct 7 18:26:03 CDT 2007


* Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> Not really, how should I go about testing that this is not a performance
> regression?  I ssuspect there's going to be a minor overhead because of
> an extra function call for the free() I added, but it would be nice to
> be able to produce useful performance test results.

2 functioncalls overhead ;).
alloca is mostly translated to only one instruction simply adjusting the
stack pointer.

cu,
michael
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