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

"Alexander G. M. Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

No, it's never a good idea to allow unrestricted usage of resources 
(even if the implementation does not suggest a hard limit).

Bye,
   Axel.


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