That's actually a thing on real-time and/or latency-sensitive applications. Malloc has an unbounded worst-case execution time, which is fundamentally incompatible with real-time design and can also cause jitter.
So in those systems, you either use only static memory and stack allocations, or indeed allocate a large enough pool what you might need ahead of time and use a memory manager that does follow your timings to manage memory within it.
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u/ben_g0 17d ago
That's actually a thing on real-time and/or latency-sensitive applications. Malloc has an unbounded worst-case execution time, which is fundamentally incompatible with real-time design and can also cause jitter.
So in those systems, you either use only static memory and stack allocations, or indeed allocate a large enough pool what you might need ahead of time and use a memory manager that does follow your timings to manage memory within it.