optimisation

Jaklub · Post by **Jaklub** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:33 pm

Hello. I'm back with more questions. I use Stef's Genesis Mini DevKit (v0.4). CAUTION: I still don't have much technical knowlegde.

1. Operations on which datatypes are fastest?
2. What's the easiest way to detect bugs related to memory? Or if one doesn't exist: how can I prevent these?

Thanks in advance.

Shiru · Post by **Shiru** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:43 pm

16-bit integers should be fastest.

I think it is not easy to make a memory leak without dynamic memory allocation (there is no alloc/free).

Jaklub · Post by **Jaklub** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:50 pm

Shiru wrote:16-bit integers should be fastest.

I think it is not easy to make a memory leak without dynamic memory allocation (there is no alloc/free).

I must have used a wrong pharse, but it seems sometimes I get memory overwriting - some values are changed even though they shouldn't be.

Shiru · Post by **Shiru** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:59 pm

Then watch for your pointers and array indexes very carefully. You can use some debug code to check if they are correct.

Jaklub · Post by **Jaklub** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:03 pm

Shiru wrote:Then watch for your pointers and array indexes very carefully. You can use some debug code to check if they are correct.

I'm such a fool, got to check my arrays more often.

Thanks for info.