Re: Of PMCs Buffers and memory management

2002-09-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Mike Lambert wrote: > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg11553.html Thanks for this. I must have missed some parts of this discussion on the list. Aligning the header pools could be an interesting approach, since now a considerable amount of time is spent to determine if a pointer on the sysem stack

Re: Of PMCs Buffers and memory management

2002-09-29 Thread Mike Lambert
> >>First and foremost, is there any compelling reason, to have totally > >>different structures for PMCs and Buffers? > >>- Both have a ->data aka ->bufstart > >>- Both have ->flags, that have vastly the same meaning. > >> > > > > As jason said in another message, Dan has changed his mind from >

Re: Of PMCs Buffers and memory management

2002-09-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Mike Lambert wrote: [ Unifying Buffer and PMC ] > As jason said in another message, Dan has changed his mind from > yesteryear, and decided that buffers and pmcs should be the same > structure. Roadmap --- 1) Hide Buffer and PMC internals, namely - buflen - bufstart - flags

Re: Of PMCs Buffers and memory management

2002-09-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Mike Lambert wrote: >>First and foremost, is there any compelling reason, to have totally >>different structures for PMCs and Buffers? >>- Both have a ->data aka ->bufstart >>- Both have ->flags, that have vastly the same meaning. >> > > As jason said in another message, Dan has changed his mind

Re: Of PMCs Buffers and memory management

2002-09-27 Thread Mike Lambert
> First and foremost, is there any compelling reason, to have totally > different structures for PMCs and Buffers? > - Both have a ->data aka ->bufstart > - Both have ->flags, that have vastly the same meaning. As jason said in another message, Dan has changed his mind from yesteryear, and decide

Re: Of PMCs Buffers and memory management

2002-09-27 Thread Jason Gloudon
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:28:41AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > First and foremost, is there any compelling reason, to have totally > different structures for PMCs and Buffers? The reasons stopped being compelling about a month or two ago, when it was decided to unify the two. No one has had