Re: Optimizing of explicit temporary storage

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:19 AM, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Indeed! - I have actually written?
>
> free(malloc(estimated_total_need));
>
> To get expensive sbrk() call out of the way with one big one
> rather than many smaller ones.

This code might already be broken the the malloc optimization that uses 
mmap for larger regions, and unmaps the large regions on free.? :-)

But, this is exactly the type of thing people can think about...? ?very 
relevant and obscure.