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Chapter 3. The Apache Portable Runtime > Selected APR Topics
3.5. Selected APR Topics
APR provides a direct alternative to functions that are familiar and almost certain to be available on your system without any need for APR. Nevertheless, there are good reasons to use the APR versions of these functions:
APR functions are platform independent and provide for better portability.
APR functions get the benefit of APR’s pool-based resource management for free.
