Re: [Pgui-devel] heap fragmentation

2004-01-30 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:38:09PM +0100, Pieter Grimmerink wrote: > All this would cause constant allocating and freeing of memory. > Doesn't this cause heap fragmentation very quickly? > Or am I just being paranoid? I guess you know your device better than I. But with a modern well-designed mem

[Pgui-devel] heap fragmentation

2004-01-30 Thread Pieter Grimmerink
Looking at the internals of the server and the client, I see a lot of malloc/free going on. I am usually very cautious of heap fragmentation, and I'm afraid PicoGUI will seriously decrease the stability of our device. This is what it would be doing continuously: To get a different window 'on t