On 07.07.2008, at 09:59, Pieter Palmers wrote:
Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
...
*Manually clear allocated memory instead of
using calloc.
What is the advantage in doing that? (/me sees an opportunity to
learn)
at least on osx, calloc clears the allocated memory lazily 'on-
demand' (see
[1]), which might not be what you want in a realtime application. i
don't know
how it behaves on linux, though.
<sk>
[1]
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/
ManagingMemory/Articles/MemoryAlloc.html