From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Thu Jan 22 05:25:36 1998
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:25:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: alloc
In-Reply-To: <98Jan21.123109est.13455@mailgate.bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.980121212409.1809A-100000@gorn>

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Paul Gilbert wrote:

> ...
> Is there any advantage to calling R_alloc rather than S_alloc? 

R_alloc does not zero the memory, and so is faster (if you don't want the
memory zeroed)


Thomas Lumley
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Thomas Lumley