Andrei Alexandrescu:
- Can you create an hierarchical allocator with those?
Not sure what that means (I recall the phrase has been
discussed but forgot what it means).
I meant something like this:
http://swapped.cc/?_escaped_fragment_=/halloc#!/halloc
(Including awareness of virtual memory management from the OS).
Definitely!
*
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3839922/aligned-malloc-in-gcc
comes to mind.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sbrk
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmap
By that "awareness" I meant something like what the Azul JavaVM
does, here a panoramic view of similar ideas:
http://web.eece.maine.edu/~jyue/papers/iccci.pdf
Bye,
bearophile
