From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:kby...@alcnet.com] >I have another post on this list which begs the question: if memory given >to us fro sbrk() is already zeroed, why zero it again if we don't have >too.... if we make calloc() smarter, we could save come clock cycles.
Because the memory returned from malloc() might be from a previous malloc()/free() and may be dirty. Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message