Re: Fragmentation was RE: [GD-General] Compile times

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Dec 17, 2002 at 12:43 -0800, Brian Hook wrote:
> 
> Fragmentation is prevalent enough a problem that Objective-C
> supports "zones" inherently.  And any long time programmers will
> have been bitten by this enough that they probably firmly understand
> the concept of managing multiple heaps/memory arenas to avoid
> fragmentation.

Has anyone been bitten when using a decent malloc?  I've seen bad
fragmentation with some older versions of msvcrt.dll, but MS's malloc
in Win2K ran neck and neck with dlmalloc in the same program, and
didn't seem to be showing any appreciable fragmentation.

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Thatcher Ulrich
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