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Can you please expand on the part where " the consumer needs to sequentially perform N "large" operations"? I don't seem to get the idea. What would be the issue with performing these N large operations sequentially by malloc'ing, consuming, and then free'ing the needed memory at each iteration?

Mehdi Charife
– Mehdi Charife

2023-10-31 11:26:20 +00:00
Commented Oct 31, 2023 at 11:26
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@MehdiCharife I can't speak for all sorts of software, but for the specific case I handled - generating large chunks of simulated landscapes - it had several recursive steps that needed to allocate memory themselves. Recursively allocating memory needs some... special engineering to make work, and this usual format doesn't handle it that well.

T. Sar
– T. Sar

2023-10-31 11:31:36 +00:00
Commented Oct 31, 2023 at 11:31

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