Re: CLEAR vs. DEALLOC/ALLOC

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Barbara,

At 11/8/00 01:48 PM -0500, you wrote:
>Mark, since ALLOC gives uninitialized storage (which might contain data
>that looks exactly like your old array), you can get the same effect by
>just changing the variable that keeps track of how many elements
>you have.  "EVAL num-elems = 0" is the most efficient way to handle this.

  That's a good point, therefore it's not an apples to apples.  But take a 
5000 element fully allocated array and a based array allocated to the full 
5000 elements, I'm assuming that the ALLOC/DEALLOC will be faster, since 
it's not initializing the array.

  -mark

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