From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:30:28 +0200

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:24:52 -0400, John Wood wrote:
> > > To do that, you need a temporary storing space for those, let's
> say, 500 names. And then we would have gained nothing, since we
> need to allocate space for that temporary storage. <<
>
> Yeah but it's temporary. You can free it once you're done sorting.
> It won't interfere with anything... it'll just come and go in the
> blink of an eye...

That implies that we have dynamic memory allocation, something we
work very much to avoid.

/Linus
Received on 2002-08-12