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Subject: Re: Anyone using STL?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 02:34:20 07/26/02

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On July 26, 2002 at 05:26:47, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>Well, if you use a fixed array (say int moves[256]) you also waste a lot of
>space in most cases.

But that is only stack space. There is no dynamic allocation involved. I think
the concern is not with using up too much memory, but with the fact that it
takes extra time to allocate memory dynamically. If you have a local variable in
a function, it doesn't "cost" anything to declare it. It's just an addition to
the stack pointer register on the CPU. It works just like Bob's method of
storing moves.

Russell



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