patch applied (ghc): Rework the block allocator

Simon Marlow <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Dec 2006 03:35:12 -0800

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Thu Dec 14 03:09:01 PST 2006  Simon Marlow <[email protected]>
  * Rework the block allocator
  
  The main goal here is to reduce fragmentation, which turns out to be
  the case of #743.  While I was here I found some opportunities to
  improve performance too.  The code is rather more complex, but it also
  contains a long comment describing the strategy, so please take a look
  at that for the details.

    M ./includes/Block.h +44
    M ./rts/sm/BlockAlloc.c -202 +479
    M ./rts/sm/Storage.c -8 +1