[PD-dev] memory allocation

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Tim,
have you done some profiling whether this is really necessary?
I'm not sure if a self-written memory allocator will really be better than
the one in the c library.

best greetings,
Thomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Blechmann" <TimBlechmann at gmx.net>
To: <pd-dev at iem.at>; <msp at ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:24 AM
Subject: [PD-dev] memory allocation


> hi miller, hi list,
>
> i'm currently thinking about working on the memory allocation functions
> of pd to make them realtime safe ...
>
> miller: are you planing to work on that in the near future? if so, it
> wouldn't be useful to reinvent the wheel twice ... if not, i'd start to
> work on that ...
>
> i thought about some kind of allocation function that allocates memory
> in the background and assignes pieces of this memory using getbytes()
> ... a helper thread could allocate memory from the os and always have a
> few mb as memory ... probably i would have to add a garbage collector
> and stuff like that, too, but it seems to be an approach that _could_
> work and make memory allocation a lot faster ...
>
> and i'd like to know, what other people think of this idea, maybe i'm on
> the wrong way ...
>
> cheers... tim
>
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