Re: ReactOS: stack vs heap

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I will try the dynamic heap allocations for the rendering
> buffer. This might be the largest of them, I think. In addition,
> this should help with the rendering speed when rendering complex
> shapes like
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cabin+Sketch. Currently, FreeType
> makes several attempts until a sub-band can fit into a static stack
> buffer. We should be able to fit it into a dynamic buffer easily. I
> wonder if CabinSketch should be about as complex as we can tolerate
> and refuse anything much more complex than this. A lot of time-outs
> will be resolved...

Perhaps a hybrid approach is the right one: Use the current
infrastructure up to a certain size, being as fast as possible because
dynamic allocation overhead can avoided, and resort to dynamic
allocation otherwise.


    Werner