On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Bill Stoddard wrote: > luca regini wrote: > > Taking a look at mod_mem_cache source code i have seen that it doesn't > > use pools to allocate cache objects but i does so by means of > > reference counting and simple calloc/free calls. I have also seen > > that this module requires a Threaded apr to work. I am wondering the > > reasons of this design choices. > > If you allocate the cache objects out of a pool, what happens to the > memory when stale objects are garbage collected?
Bad Things(tm). :) However, it should be possible to use a custom apr_allocator_t instead of directly calling calloc/free. Might be a little faster?
