> On Mar 14, 2017, at 3:23 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >>> On Mar 13, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: >>>> stash the metadata for each allocation (and pointers for corresponding >>>> free) in a hash table for all mallocs that we need to track? [this >>>> avoids the wasted 'space' in each alloc.] >>> >>> Sure, but this is just duplicating an implementation of malloc. >> >> No it isn't. It is a very thin wrapper around multiple current mallocs. > > Meh, the proposal has more storage overhead than malloc().
It still doesn't even come close to providing the functionality of malloc, so isn't a duplication of malloc
