Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   It's certainly not a good idea to create, resize and destroy 6 vectors
> > at each iteration.

> And in a well-tuned GC system, that's less of a problem, see? :-) 

  You and your obsession. It has nothing to do with GC. I has to do with
memory allocation strategies and optimization. There's nothing inherently
inefficient in non-GC'd allocation nor anything inherently efficient in
GC'd allocation. We are talking about *allocation* here, not deallocation.
There's basically no difference between GC'd and non-GC'd allocation.

  A non-GC'd regular C++ allocator can be made extremely fast (there are
many practical demonstrations of this). For some reason, however, most
compilers prefer the space-optimal allocation scheme to the speed-optimal
one.

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                                                          - Warp

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