On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:39:15AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > Well, one of the things I do in my wrapper is initilize to -1 all newly > allocated bytes, allows to pinpoint relatively easilly when you assumed zeroed > memory which was not, while not paying for the initialization when not needed. If you initialise the bytes to -1, don't you always pay the cost of initialisation? dme.