[LAD] [ANN] jack_capture V0.9.19, Snd-ls V0.9.8.17 and Rollendurcmesserzeitsammler V0.0.4

stefan kersten sk at k-hornz.de
Mon Jul 7 10:32:03 UTC 2008


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




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