From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Aligned blocks management: obsolete? Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:48:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4EE5B744.1090103@yandex.ru> <4EE60A93.9060401@yandex.ru> <4EE6478C.1020701@cs.ucla.edu> <4FE0ADFC.9090504@yandex.ru> <4FE171EC.8000503@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340196521 32533 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2012 12:48:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:48:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , Emacs development discussions To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 14:48:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ShKKm-0006OR-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:48:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShKKm-0002CE-Q0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:48:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShKKh-0002Bx-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:48:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShKKd-0008AZ-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:56208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ShKKW-00088v-8i; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:48:16 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09MCrYj/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgcBboJkEQDozOBWIMF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="191767018" Original-Received: from 76-10-182-35.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.182.35]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 20 Jun 2012 08:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6DEE2592CA; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:48:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4FE171EC.8000503@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:47:08 +0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:151051 Archived-At: > It will be great if someone can help to test this on Windows, OSX, old *BSD > and other non-GNU/Linux systems; in particular, I believe OSX should have > some specific aligned allocation stuff, which I'm not aware about. I'm not completely sure the test is sufficiently thorough to catch all problems, and more importantly it doesn't test the efficiency of memalign. Stefan