[vlc-devel] commit: aout_BufferAlloc() : remove stack allocation ( Rafa??l Carr?? )

[jpd at videolan.org]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:49:35PM +0300, R??mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le jeudi 3 septembre 2009 16:07:04 git version control, vous avez ??crit :
> > vlc | branch: master | Rafa??l Carr?? <rafael.carre at gmail.com> | Thu Sep  3
[...]
> > I expect the performance loss to be minimal, but worth the code
> > simplification anyway (i didn't benchmark)
> 
> And I don't. The heap is contended and slow. The stack is thread-local
> and has zero allocation overhead.

alloca() also cannot report it has just overrun the stack, making
it unsafe, and there's the detail it isn't standard but compiler
dependent.