inefficient QString coding practice

Dominique Devriese dominique.devriese at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Sun Mar 14 15:17:44 GMT 2004


Adriaan de Groot writes:

> The original claim by Juergen was that bleh == "foo" incurs a
> considerable malloc / free and whatnot overhead and that it should
> be kept in mind. As long as there's no numbers attached, neither
> "doesn't really matter performance-wise" or "is important" can be
> evaluated.

I think we can be pretty sure that a low, constant number of extra
instructions, and a low, constant number of extra malloc/free's
multiplied by a very low, and also constant number of occurences of
this practice won't matter much in the bigger image.

cheers
domi




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