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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Aligned blocks management: obsolete?
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:38:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv39cpiqo5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE5B744.1090103@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Antipov's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:11:48 +0400")

> Is it still required to maintain the cache of aligned blocks
> to workaround poor malloc behavior? I believe an attached
> example should perform well (i.e. allocate ~4K blocks without
> ~4K holes between them) on top of any non-ancient glibc (no
> ideas about other system malloc implementations, BTW).

I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting we change.
If you're talking about BLOCK_PADDING (which we don't actually use
right now since it defaults to 0), then we could probably just remove
it, but I'm not sure what would be the benefit (other than the handful
of source lines it removes, of course).


        Stefan



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-12 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12  8:11 Aligned blocks management: obsolete? Dmitry Antipov
2011-12-12 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-12 14:07   ` Dmitry Antipov
2011-12-12 18:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-12 18:27     ` Paul Eggert
2012-06-19 16:51       ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-06-19 17:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-19 21:34         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-20  6:47           ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-06-20 12:48             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-20 13:54               ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-06-20 15:41                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-20 17:10                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-21  4:27                   ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-06-21 16:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-04  8:39                       ` Old topic(s) again [was: Re: Aligned blocks management: obsolete?] Dmitry Antipov
2012-07-04 13:11                         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-21 21:34                     ` Aligned blocks management: obsolete? Richard Stallman
2012-06-20 17:06             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-21  3:30               ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-06-21 16:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-20 17:59             ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-06-21  3:12               ` Dmitry Antipov
2012-06-20  6:53         ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-12 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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