On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Henning Brauer <[email protected]>wrote:
> * Ted Unangst <[email protected]> [2010-08-07 19:54]: > > you write your own allocator. > > don't. ever. to put it another way, if memory fragmentation ever does become a problem for you, there is probably an easier and safer solution than writing your own allocator. upgrading to a 64-bit platform, for example, is likely to be a far better solution. modifying your app to use malloc(3) and free(3) more conservatively may be a viable option as well, although at that point you're starting down the road of writing your own allocator again. -ken
