Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>>>> It isn't. The problem is that if say we assume heap allocation is twice 
>>>> as
>>>> efficient as static worst case
>>> You can assume whatever you like, the point is: how can you be sure?
>>
>> Because I wrote the program that makes the allocations and I understand 
>> how
>> it works.
>>
>> For a current project I am working on I know that if I statically 
>> allocated
>> everything that could exist on the heap it would take around 10 times 
>> more
>> memory than the heap will ever use while it is running.
>
> If you feel sure about your analysis (sure enough to sit on en electric
> chair connected to the 'out of memory' alarm)... And note that it is not
> just about memory use, but also about fragmentation.
>
> My experience is that whenever I was *that* sure that malloc/free would
> work it was because the problem could be reformulated to use array 
> elements.

Wouter, aren't you being a wee bit too dramatic?

Vitaliy 

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