On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Ben Kloosterman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm talking about allocating a large array of some particular object type >> and then doling out interior pointers as the objects are allocated. It's an >> array of objects, not an array of allocators. >> >> What do you get by using value types and non boxed array? > The ability to control placement and locality. > ... Linux kernel is whole program and very few apps will reach that scale. >>> >> >> Linux is not compiled whole program. It is compiled one source unit at a >> time. >> >> > > Pretty sure you could in theory compile all those files to LLVM IR ( if > not for some not c compliant code) . > Not in reality. Lots of dynamic loading in the linux kernel. But in any case, that's not how it's done. shap
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