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.

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jv