Re: ideas for returning memory to the OS

Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:25:28 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.performance
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

* Brian Crowder <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

> No, each different piece of mozilla manages objects or structures 
> with different life-spans and performance constrains, usage-patterns, 
> and so on.  

Are they really that different ? 
Which ones for example ?

If this is really the case, we most likely need an allocator 
which supports these separate cases. (using multiple different
allocators can be difficult, eg. if some tries to free an chunk
of another allocator ;-o).

Or maybe some things should be moved off to their own processes ?

cu
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