[ODE] alloc vs. malloc again

[Martin C. Martin]

jon klein wrote:
> 
> Obviously allocating on the stack has a large speed advantage
> over malloc/free, but for people who are more concerned about
> stability and runtime scalability, I think that malloc/free
> would do the trick.
> 
> Another solution, which would fix the speed issue, would be to
> have static pointers to buffers which grow when necessary and
> don't get freed at all until the program terminates.  This would
> be even faster than allocating memory on the stack, but is
> considerably more work.

Actually, a good memory manager should do something like this for you,
behind the scenes.

> Is there anybody else who would like to see either of these
> options available (via a #define statement)?

I certainly would.

- Martin