Efficiently allocating many short-lived small objects

Question

I\'ve got a small class (16 bytes on a 32bit system) which I need to dynamically allocate. In most cases the life-time of any given instance is very short. Some instances may al

Answer 1

You might make sure that you are using the low fragmentation heap. It is on by default in Vista and later, but I do not think that is so with earlier OS's. That can make a big difference in allocation speed for small objects.