Re: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:56 AM 9/18/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:54:41PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 12:51 AM 9/18/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > > > Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain: > > > > > > > > > > http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html > > > > >

Re: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:54:41PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 12:51 AM 9/18/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > > Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain: > > > > > > > > http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html > > > > > > > > I don't remember whether that's quadsafe code but the fir

Re: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:51 AM 9/18/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain: > > > > > > http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html > > > > > > I don't remember whether that's quadsafe code but the first person to > > > > It is. > > > > Further digging found this comparison

Re: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:38 AM 9/18/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Don't sweat system malloc behaviour all that much at the moment. We are > > going to be completely taking over memory allocation internally at some > > point reas

Re: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> > Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain: > > > > http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html > > > > I don't remember whether that's quadsafe code but the first person to > > It is. > > Further digging found this comparison discussing malloc and gc > implementations: > > http://www.cs.color

Re: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 12:38:01AM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Don't sweat system malloc behaviour all that much at the moment. We are > > going to be completely taking over memory allocation internally at som

Re: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:29:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Folks, > > Don't sweat system malloc behaviour all that much at the moment. We are > going to be completely taking over memory allocation internally at some > point reasonably soon, so as long as what you do doesn't crash we should

RE: System malloc behaviour...

2001-09-17 Thread Hong Zhang
> Don't sweat system malloc behaviour all that much at the moment. We are > going to be completely taking over memory allocation internally at some > point reasonably soon, so as long as what you do doesn't crash we should be > fine. (It's OK to leak at this point--either the GC system or the