[Matrix-SIG] Fortran-to-python-interface-generator: looking for opinions

[Les Schaffer]

andrew said:

> Let's put it another way. The more often I can stop other people
> from calling malloc or using space on the stack the better my life
> is. Both can be needlessly harmful ways of using memory, used mainly
> because most programmers are unaware of alternatives.

can you or someone else explain what this means? when is it bad to use
malloc? what alternatives?

les

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