On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:59 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
> this is the whole point of the big allocation, so why > would we drag this into plan 9, when it's not necessary. > the plan 9 heap is contiguous. Sorry, Erik, I misunderstood your point. I guess what you are pointing out is that on Plan 9, presumably, since the Go runtime is the only thing that might call brk(), it will always get a virtually contiguous heap. Therefore, instead of a huge upfront allocation, Go runtime could call brk() as needed. Can we safely assume that only the Go runtime will call brk()? What if we link a library into Go that calls brk() as well -- won't that violate Go's model? Probably not worth worrying about since Russ says he's good with the other change. thanks ron
