Dynamic Memory Questions

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Jan 10, 2004 at 7:46 PM

Is there any thing bad about using dynamic memory a lot? I use it for all my classes: Like, CDIKeyboard *diKeyboard = new CDIKeyboard(); Is this a bad thing? A good thing? Or it doesn''t really matter? - DarkNebula

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DarkNebula

Jan 10, 2004 at 10:43 PM

Thanks for your reply, if anyone would like to add anything else feel free to.

- DarkNebula

Quirk

Jan 10, 2004 at 11:02 PM

dynamic allocation is slower than static allocation. So if you frequently create objects you might want to preallocate a bunch of those and use some kind of Get method for retrieval.

For the keyboard example it would be quite appropriate using the new operator since it''s not something one would do multiple times every frame.

/Q

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