Re: [boost] Re: [Libcwd-devel] libcwd and Boost

From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-30 11:29:04

From: Daniel Frey <daniel.frey_at_[hidden]>
> Rob Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > Given that your demangling logic will be invoked in almost every
> > use case strictly for error reporting, performance is not an
> > issue.  Therefore, any performance concern wrt copying strings is
> > moot.
> 
> It's not just about performance. Errors may occur when the system is
> short of memory, thus you should try be avoid memory allocations
> whenever possible (OK, string will most likely not be a real problem,
> put you never know...).

That certainly can occur.  However, the only way to preclude that
problem is to preallocate memory.

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