Re: Memory fragmentation?
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On Nov 15, 9:38 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I just had a thought about the fragmentation problem. That problem is > often best described as "too many small allocations." But the real > danger seems to be that we're mixing tons of small allocations and > several large ones. For example, if you allocate 128 bytes, allocate > 100k and then allocate another 128 bytes after that, the entire 100k > is pinned, leaving large gaps. Most malloc implementations would not work that way. Rob