[comp.sys.amiga] How expensive

haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) (01/31/88)

        The title about says it all.  I am dynamically allocating and
deallocating drawing sequences and am concerned about the speed of the
memory allocations and deallocations I'm implementing.  Anyone know anything
about this?

                                                    Thank you,


                                                          Wade.

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dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (02/01/88)

>        The title about says it all.  I am dynamically allocating and
>deallocating drawing sequences and am concerned about the speed of the
>memory allocations and deallocations I'm implementing.  Anyone know anything
>about this?

	Quite fast.  Of course, the blitter is fast too, so allocating
and deallocating memory every time you do a draw sequence may halve the 
speed of the drawing.  I suggest you do something intelligent... keep buffers
around and only allocate for sequences that take large amounts of memory.

					-Matt