Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-03 Thread Melvin Smith
Reposted to the list so people can comment. As per the IRC discussion with Dan. I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. I have the loader handling arbitrary byteordering, now I'm working on wordsize transforms. The good thing here is I'm documenting the code as I go, so h

Re: Memory management revamp - phase 2

2002-05-03 Thread Steve Fink
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:57:37PM +0200, Peter Gibbs wrote: > Attached is the second set of patches for the tracked resource memory > management system. > > Features: > Separate memory pools for buffers, normal strings, constant strings; the > latter is never compacted > Each pool has its own al

Memory management revamp - phase 2

2002-05-03 Thread Peter Gibbs
Attached is the second set of patches for the tracked resource memory management system. Features: Separate memory pools for buffers, normal strings, constant strings; the latter is never compacted Each pool has its own alignment; these are currently set to 16, 4 and 2 respectively; suggestions w