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

"Chris M. Thomasson" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Eric Sosman" <Eric.Sosman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Second,
>> how does a chunk discover its own size?  Are all chunks the same
>> fixed size,
>
> Small chunks would all be the same size. Large chunks would be any size
> 
> the small chunk size. I would use small chunks in per-thread heap, and 
> large chunks in global heap. When a thread is created it requests some 
> chunks from the "global chunk server" and builds a segerated bucket
based 
> heap. Or, I could do a region allocator and have a single doubly linked 
> list of heaps. BTW, here is fully working example code of such a 
> per-thread region allocator:
>
>
http://webpages.charter.net/appcore/vzoom/malloc/sergey_vzmem_thread.html
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Here is context for the odd name of the file on the Charter web-server... 
Where did the name Sergey come from? Well, here of course:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/browse_frm/thread/4038a7a8a4f5a7cb
(read all for full context...)