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On 2005-11-20, aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> what all this talk of garbage collectors?
> 1. allegro is a C library right ?
> 2. is free() really so slow that we need to use a garbage collector ?
It can be useful when using Allegro from languages which do use garbage
collectors. It's not _necessary_ to play nice, but it's also not
necessary to allow the user to select the implementation of malloc.
> i know the whole thing is going to get a design, and changes (as
> mentioned already), but is there any reason why we still cant change all
> the malloc's to _al_malloc() in the mean time ?
It will be a waste of your time if we have to change it again later.
Peter