On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Evan Huus <eapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have linked a tarball [2] containing the following files: >> - wmem_allocator.h - the definition of the allocator interface >> - wmem_allocator_glib.* - a simple implementation of the allocator >> interface backed by g_malloc and a singly-linked list. > > Presumably an implementation of the allocator could, instead of calling a > lower-level memory allocator (malloc(), g_malloc(), etc.) for each allocation > call, allocate larger chunks and parcel out memory from the larger chunks (as > the current emem allocator does), if that ends up saving enough CPU, by > making fewer allocate and free calls to the underlying memory allocator, so > as to make it worth whatever wasted memory we have at the ends of chunks?
Absolutely: this is one of the things on my to-do list for wmem. I haven't started it yet though. so if somebody else wants to grab it that would be great. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
