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[GD-Consoles] Doug Lea's Malloc

[Brett B. <res...@ga...>]

Hello,
We're considering switching to Doug Lea's malloc implementation on the PS2
and GameCube.  Has anybody that has done this ran into any problems with
this on either platform?  Could anybody recommend any tuning or default
values that should be changed?  Anybody satisfied or dissatified with it?
Thanks,
Brett

Re: [GD-Consoles] Doug Lea's Malloc

[brian s. <pud...@po...>]

Done it for both, works great.  There's a thread in sce.dev.toptips with 
the subject "malloc replacement" that gives you a version that you can 
drop in your PS2 game with very little effort.  Moving it to GC is 
really easy as well.

--brian

Brett Bibby wrote:

>Hello,
>We're considering switching to Doug Lea's malloc implementation on the PS2
>and GameCube.  Has anybody that has done this ran into any problems with
>this on either platform?  Could anybody recommend any tuning or default
>values that should be changed?  Anybody satisfied or dissatified with it?
>Thanks,
>Brett
>  
>

Re: [GD-Consoles] Doug Lea's Malloc

[J. V. <val...@tr...>]

On Jun 7, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Brett Bibby wrote:

> Hello,
> We're considering switching to Doug Lea's malloc implementation on the 
> PS2
> and GameCube.  Has anybody that has done this ran into any problems 
> with
> this on either platform?  Could anybody recommend any tuning or default
> values that should be changed?  Anybody satisfied or dissatified with 
> it?

I highly recommend it.  We used it to great satisfaction on Spider-Man 
2 GC for heaps in both physical and virtual memory.  The default 
Nintendo heap allocator is really unsatisfactory.  I didn't find tuning 
the default defines to provide any significant benefit, but it's worth 
double checking that you're using the minimal alignment possible.

--
jv