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

[brian h. <bri...@py...>]

> The reason I ask is because I *know* fragmentation is a problem if
> malloc sucks, and sucky mallocs have been ubiquitous until recently,
> but the only empirical study I'm aware of suggests that if malloc
> doesn't suck, then fragmentation is not a problem.
> 
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wilson/papers/fragsolved.pdf

Okay, went back and browsed that paper, and I don't think it applies.  
The datasets and object sizes they are looking at aren't representative 
of what I consider to be normal game. For example, they make the 
observation that most programs average allocating objects of about 6-7 
different sizes.  Any game that loads models, textures or sound will 
almost definitely not fit into this area.

And they don't take into account run times of weeks or months.  

-Hook