[fpc-pascal] Florian Blog?

2007-02-12 Thread Tiziano_mk
Just looking on page: http://www.freepascal.org/aboutus.var I found that there is a link to Florian's blog: http://www.de.freepascal.org/~florian/nucleus/ but I got the ususal error 404: any hint? tiziano ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@li

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble

2007-02-12 Thread George Lober
Jonas Maebe wrote: On 12 Feb 2007, at 20:27, George Lober wrote: One nice side benefit of FastMM is that it automatically lets you know of memory leaks with no fuss and bother on the programmers part. FPC has support for that built in. Just compile your application with -ghl (that also does

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble

2007-02-12 Thread Vincent Snijders
Helmut Hartl schreef: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/michael/pldi-2004.pdf This one is not lock free, because it uses atomic instructions used by the cpu, which are essentially fine grained locks. Vincent ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas

RE: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble

2007-02-12 Thread Helmut Hartl
>Florian Klaempfl schrieb: > Well, the lockless multithreaded memory managers are a myth. > Atomic exchange operations take a also a lot of time and are > locked by the cpu as well. > The XEN Developers at Cambridge have nice papers to read ... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~kaf24/ (Others are

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble

2007-02-12 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 12 Feb 2007, at 20:27, George Lober wrote: One nice side benefit of FastMM is that it automatically lets you know of memory leaks with no fuss and bother on the programmers part. FPC has support for that built in. Just compile your application with -ghl (that also does a lot of other me

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble

2007-02-12 Thread George Lober
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Helmut Hartl schrieb: > >FastMM is open source, has anyone ported it to FPC? > > There are users that have got FastMM working with FPC. But > it is not needed. The standard FPC heap manager is for > single-threaded applications as fast as FastMM. A little bit

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble

2007-02-12 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Helmut Hartl schrieb: > > > >FastMM is open source, has anyone ported it to FPC? > > > > There are users that have got FastMM working with FPC. But > > it is not needed. The standard FPC heap manager is for > > single-threaded applications as fast as FastMM. > > A little bit shortsighted

RE: [fpc-pascal] Question on how to avoid memory trouble

2007-02-12 Thread Helmut Hartl
> >FastMM is open source, has anyone ported it to FPC? > > There are users that have got FastMM working with FPC. But > it is not needed. The standard FPC heap manager is for > single-threaded applications as fast as FastMM. A little bit shortsighted (IMHO),as "everyone seriously concern

Re: [fpc-pascal] Wikies

2007-02-12 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Micha Nelissen schrieb: > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Are the wikis being merged? Is it my impression, or is there a main >> page for compiler things missing? > > The pages are there. > >> When I go to fpc page and click on Wiki it shows lazarus-ccr wiki, and >> I can“t fin