Hello,
I have a pointer to a main structure which again consists of
structures, enums, char, int, float and again complex structures.
When i free all the contents of the main structure, it takes me a lot
of time (since i have to loop determining the data type and freeing
it). Is there any idea to free all the contents of the structure in
shortest possible time.
Mar 5 '08
11  2011 
santosh wrote:
vivek wrote:
>I have a pointer to a main structure which again consists of
structures, enums, char, int, float and again complex structures.
When i free all the contents of the main structure, it takes me
a lot of time (since i have to loop determining the data type
and freeing it). Is there any idea to free all the contents of
the structure in shortest possible time.
You might try making the structure static. Or you might try
having a separate cache of all the pointers to dynamic memory
for each structure element. This will consume additional memory,
but will eliminate the need to traverse the structure to free
all it's components.
Something is seriously wrong. The type has nothing to do with
freeing. You simply free the object. The compiler knows what the
type, and thus the size, of that object is.
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Hello,
I have a pointer to a main structure which again consists of
structures, enums, char, int, float and again complex structures.
None of these require freeing individually. Only if there are pointers to
other things (perhaps the complex structures you mentioned).
When i free all the contents of the main structure, it takes me a lot
of time (since i have to loop determining the data type and freeing
it).
Why do have to determine the data type at runtime? Do you have elements
which sometimes are pointers and sometimes something else? Or only some
pointers need freeing?
>Is there any idea to free all the contents of the structure in
shortest possible time.
Perhaps post the struct definition here so we can see the problem areas.
But, if the struct will always be the same size and is reused frequently,
perhaps just keep it allocated -- unless you are very short of memory. But
even there might be tricks to share the memory without
allocating/deallocating.
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