Subj : Re: Heap contention/BC5.02 crt
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Björn Lantz
Date : Wed Nov 24 2004 02:10 pm

I found a fantastic memory/heap manager called hoard, it seems to be doing
the job pretty well on multiprocessor systems. Just linked with an implib:ed
lib and ran like a charm.

"Bob Gonder" <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote in message
news:19qpp0hg3nrf2br8t6i17ek4bo6j4tffq2@4ax.com...
> Do you really need to malloc the space?
> Could you instead use local variables?
> For instance, if you need a variable sized array, but know that the
> size will never be larger than N, then you could just have a  local
> array of  the maximum size , and use a sub-portion of it.
>
> Each thread gets it's own stack. You can set the stack size to
> whatever you need (within reason, say 1-2 MB) (At least, in Win32, not
> sure about Win16)

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