Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/04/01/13:49:42
John M. Aldrich wrote:
> The answer is quite simple: DJGPP's malloc()/free() does not return
> freed memory blocks to the system; it keeps track of them for possible
> reuse later. At program termination, all allocated memory is returned
> to the DPMI host.
Is it faster to reuse freed memory than asking the dpmi server for it again?
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Noam Rotem
John Bryce Training Centre
Tel Aviv, Israel.
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