On 10/24/13 4:01 PM, bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
- Can you create an hierarchical allocator with those?
Not sure what that means (I recall the phrase has been discussed but
forgot what it means).
I meant something like this:
http://swapped.cc/?_escaped_fragment_=/halloc#!/halloc
I see. These are akin to regions to some extent, just a bit more
dynamic. The design doesn't explicitly address the pattern, so I expect
there would be some hiccups.
(Including awareness of virtual memory management from the OS).
Definitely!
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3839922/aligned-malloc-in-gcc
comes to mind.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbrk
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmap
By that "awareness" I meant something like what the Azul JavaVM does,
here a panoramic view of similar ideas:
http://web.eece.maine.edu/~jyue/papers/iccci.pdf
Once we get to types and garbage, such stuff will become more relevant.
Andrei
