Re: [Algorithms] General purpose task parallel threading approach

[<asy...@gm...>]

>I try to do allocations from the stack when ever possible to avoid memory
fragmentation issues
You can temporary convert a task to be executed in thread's context. I could
also provide a function to access worker thread's stack for temporal
computations.

Alexander.

2009/4/14 Jarkko Lempiainen <al...@gm...>

>  Personally, I try to do allocations from the stack when ever possible to
> avoid memory fragmentation issues, so 2-4kb stack sounds quite small for my
> purposes at least.
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> Cheers, Jarkko
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> *From:* asy...@gm... [mailto:asy...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:41 AM
> *To:* Game Development Algorithms
> *Subject:* Re: [Algorithms] General purpose task parallel threading
> approach
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> So far the experience I (and few others) have says that 2 to 4 kilobytes is
> the size which is enough to handle 95% of all cases. You could use same
> memory pool for tasks of different sizes (bigger size will result in less
> tasks you have in flight), for example - 2 continuous pieces of 4k memory
> could be used to create an 8k task.
>
> Alexander
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> 2009/4/14 Nicholas "Indy" Ray <ar...@gm...>
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> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Adrian Bentley <ad...@gm...> wrote:
> > 4 MB feels like a lot given console memory limits, but allowing 2000
> > tasks in flight sounds pedantic.  This mechanism can't support SPUs,
> > right?
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> Also keep in mind that a 2 KB stack is likely to get overflowed REALLY
> quickly with any real operations going on.
>
> Nicholas "Indy" Ray
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