Linus with some good observations on garbage collection

[dsimcha]

On 4/23/2011 10:24 AM, bearophile wrote:
> dsimcha:
>
>> Right.  This is exactly the kind of thing TempAlloc was meant to solve.
>
> I think TempAlloc is meant for larger allocations. D-VLAs are meant to allocate little arrays (like 1 KB or less) on the normal stack very quickly.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Why would TempAlloc not work for this?  It's slightly slower than VLAs, 
but the difference is negligible since it's still almost never a 
threading bottleneck and you still have to do something with the array 
you allocated.