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Re: static variables, the stack, the heap, and speed
- From: "Noel Yap" <noel dot yap at gmail dot com>
- To: "Bill McEnaney" <bill at rkirkpat dot net>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:32:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: static variables, the stack, the heap, and speed
- References: <20060724172627.7616071919@saratoga.rkirkpat.net>
Can you give a link to the article please? Unless I'm missing
something, what the article alleges doesn't make any sense. Static
duration variables aren't stored in the heap but rather, in the data
segment (not sure if this is proper terminology).
IIRC, heap access is the slowest and data access is the fastest, but
unless there's a strong rationale for coding with this in mind, I'd
stick to using automatic (aka stack) variables.
Noel
On 7/24/06, Bill McEnaney <bill@rkirkpat.net> wrote:
Hi, Folks,
I've read an article that says that since program get a static
variable's storage from the heap, the program can access static
variables faster than it can access automatic ones. Is that true?
Thanks.
Bill
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