Fergus Henderson wrote:
> [...] why is the Pool type polymorphic, and allocation in a pool
> restricted to only allocating values whose type matches the pool's
> type parameter? It would be much nicer to support allocating
> different types in the same pool.
No deep reason, it was just a remnant
On 18-Jan-2003, Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The FFI libraries currently contain support for explicit allocation
> and deallocation via the malloc/free family and support for implicit
> allocation and deallocation via alloca and friends. But there is a
> very useful level between these e
I wrote:
> [...] I propose adding this module to FFI addendum and the exports
> of module Foreign.Marshal. [...]
Ooops, typo: I meant module Foreign...
Sorry,
S.
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The FFI libraries currently contain support for explicit allocation
and deallocation via the malloc/free family and support for implicit
allocation and deallocation via alloca and friends. But there is a
very useful level between these extremes: Pooled memory management.
Under this scheme, (re-)all
