Hey folks. We're battling with dynamic heap fragmentation, and I'd
appreciate any advice.
Does anyone have any tips or tricks to reduce dynamic heap fragmentation? I
was thinking of pulling all of my string allocations out of a common pool of
memory, instead of little 5 and 10-byte MemPtrNew()'s everywhere. But I'm
not sure if that would be any better than simply calling MemHeapCompact()
from time to time. I'm not sure how thorough MemHeapCompact() is.
Are there any rules of thumb I should follow for minimizing fragmentation?
For example, lock a chunk for as little time as possible. Pass handles
around, not locked handle pointers. What else?
Does the background Netlib thread do any churning that can cause
fragmentation when I don't expect it?
Any help is appreciated.
Have a good one,
-Jeff Ishaq
Vanteon, formerly The Windward Group
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