Thanks all, Just writing this out in a form of explaining it to others and having this little bit of discussion has really helped. Thanks guys.
AJ ONeal On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alberto Treviño <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, August 23, 2010 11:56:34 am AJ ONeal wrote: > > My educated guess is that dynamically allocated memory is subject to > > fragmentation (just like a hard drive) > > You are correct. Read this (old) article from LWN explaining the problem: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/211505/ > > The debate still continues as to what to do with fragmented memory, and LWN > covers that well. But, to answer the question "does memory fragment" the > answer is "absolutely, yes." Does it impact performance? As usual, the > answer is "it depends." > > -- > Alberto Treviño > BYU Testing Center > Brigham Young University > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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