Re: sup****ting header-less blocks in memory allocators...

Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> There is a way to minimize the GUID scheme, but it requires two sections
of
> virtual memory which can be wasteful. It involves block sizes <= chunk
size
> to be allocated from a separate memory pool than block sizes that are >
> chunk size. The former can use the normal scheme of simple rounding up
and
> subtracting to get chunk header... However, the latter would need to use
the
> GUID search algorithm.

If object is bigger than 16 pages, I think it's perfectly Ok to spent
16 bytes on header.
What is the point of huge headerless blocks?

Dmitriy V'jukov