Hi, On 07/20/2010 09:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Hmm, deriving code from a paper published by IBM sounds like bad news -- who knows what patents they hold on the techniques there?
Yeah, that might be an issue. Note, however, that the lock-based variant differs substantially from what's been published. And I sort of doubt their patents covers a lot of stuff that's not lock-free-ish.
But again, I'd also very much welcome any other allocator. In my opinion, it's the most annoying drawback of the process-based design compared to a threaded variant (from the perspective of a developer).
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