GMP allocation changes

Kevin Ryde user42@zip.com.au
Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:23:00 +1000


Torbjorn Granlund <tege@swox.com> writes:
>
> Some work will also be needed at the mpz level to reduce stack
> allocation.  But we should start at the mpn level, I think.

What did you think of the idea to have all TMP_ALLOC calls check the
size they're asked for and use malloc above a threshold?

That'd uniformly avoid big blocks and mean a fixed maximum stack usage
for any given function.