From: francis.glassborow@btinternet.com   
      
   On 01/04/2013 09:04, David Lowndes wrote:   
   >> Heap allocation/deallocation used to be a serious time consumer, but   
   >> AFAIK that problem was largely overcome more than a decade ago.   
   >   
   > It was?   
   > Do you have a reference to what you're alluding to there?   
   >   
   > Dave   
   >   
   It is my understanding that heap managers and optimisers have become   
   very much more efficient than they were in the 80s and 90s. Of course it   
   is very hard to benchmark these because they often work best in exactly   
   the kind of code used for benchmarking :(   
      
   Francis   
      
      
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