On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:01 +0100, Martín Vales wrote: > BJörn Lindqvist escribió: > > Actually, a custom allocator could be useful even in the general case. > > Malloc is a system call and has quite bad performance on certain > > platforms (windows in particular i think). Something like the gslice > > allocator could > > Probably improve performance a bit. > > > gslice i believe use malloc internally. I believe you always need > malloc/new-(C/C++) because you depend on ms Windows API. > > I am not sure if you can build your own malloc because you depend on the > operating system. Sure, you must malloc to get new memory, but you can malloc bigger than what you need and hand out the extra memory later at a much lower cost.
-Larry <la...@yrral.net> > > regards. > > > > > 2009/1/18, muppet <sc...@asofyet.org>: > > > >> On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Martín Vales wrote: > >> > >> > >>> What are the advantages of use a glib_mem_vtable ???. I think we > >>> have the same malloc function in all operating systems? > >>> > >> This vtable allows you to swap in a different allocator with next to > >> no effort. Maybe it has special OOM handling, or uses a special pool > >> or allocation algorithm tuned to your use-case, or does debugging > >> logging work, or whatever. The fact that the default is the same > >> everywhere is a bit beside the point of having the functionality. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Me: What's that in your mouth? > >> Zella: *swallows laboriously* Nothing. > >> Me: What did you just swallow? > >> Zella: A booger. > >> Me: Baby girl, don't eat boogers. That's gross. > >> Zella: But it was in my nose. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gtk-devel-list mailing list > >> gtk-devel-l...@gnome.org > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
