Re: RFC: Slab-o-rama (after Rene's suggestion)

"Alexander G. M. Smith" <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:43:13 -0400 EDT
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.kernel.devel
Message-ID <217863067609-BeMail@cr593174-a>
Hugo Santos wrote on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:53:36 +0100:
>   Yes, Bonwick's also introduces a very nice resource allocator in his
> 2001 paper which i'm planning to implement as well. We could use it
> for most resources, including FDs, ports, etc.

What?  Does that mean we'll get rid of the fixed size array based method
and actually have an unlimited number of FDs, etc?  That's something of
a pet peeve with me about BeOS, as compared to AmigaDOS which had unlimited
(except by memory) quantities of everything.

- Alex

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