Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: >> 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
Fine, it's more wasteful than malloc while doing less than malloc, and still calls malloc.
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