Re: Re: A non-sucking garbage collector
Greg Ewing <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:55:33 +1200
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Mark Hahn <[email protected]>: > The malloc call is extremely fast also. It just keeps one free pointer in a > big pre-malloc'd arena and marches through giving out memory chunks of any > size without keeping track of anything. Have you thought about how cache-unfriendly that behaviour is going to be? Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | [email protected] +--------------------------------------+