Re: Memory Allocation

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Igor Cabral Corr?a wrote:

> I'm not making a game now, but I thinking something related with game
> creation. Maybe you could aid me, please...
> If I declare all variables of my program global, giving to the OS the task of
> managing virtual/phisical memory for these variables, I have significant loss
> of speed than when I manage the blocks of memory with malloc?

It doesn't matter whether your variables are global, local or dynamically
allocated onto the heap - Linux will manage them for you in *exactly* the
same way.

Like I said before - "Just don't worry about it."

Otherwise, you might get a *tiny* speed advantage by using globals - but
the ugliness that this induces into your code design isn't worth it.

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