On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 09:43 +0100, milosz derezynski wrote:
> Well, i volunteer for this. I have used cairo extensively for coding
> bmpx and i'm going to get to a very good point in documenting at least
> all the equivalents of gdk_draw_*()
>
> Federico: In which format should i write this, anyth
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:44:04 +0100
Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Also, are you making GType use g_slice for allocation of objects instead
of memchunks (if n_preallocs is set)?
And what of the allocators used by GString / GList / GS
I might be dense, but what exactly does g_slice_ buy us over
plain, old malloc?
* Don't say speed. That's a bogus argument because you cannot
possibly have tested all mallocs.
* Don't say overhead for the same reason.
What do we pay?
* We have probably killed tools like Purify that know abou
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Morten Welinder wrote:
> I might be dense, but what exactly does g_slice_ buy us over
> plain, old malloc?
>
> * Don't say speed. That's a bogus argument because you cannot
> possibly have tested all mallocs.
It's tested with the glibc implementation, and that buys us speed
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:35:38PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Morten Welinder wrote:
>
> > I might be dense, but what exactly does g_slice_ buy us over
> > plain, old malloc?
> >
> > * Don't say speed. That's a bogus argument because you cannot
> > possibly have tested
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, Dave Benson wrote:
> i have two sort-of related questions:
> - doesn't this belong in glibc?
> - why isn't it implemented as g_mem_set_table(g_slice_allocator)?
No, the difference is that for no-overhead allocation to be
possible, g_slice implementation is using the fact t
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:40 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 12:39 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
>
> > and there were no strong objections after that. so it'd be nice if you
> > provided
> > a patch that covered all list functions. i think that can get commit
> > approval
> > ri
