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From: jason@dsd.es.com (Jason S. Ehrhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: A Malloc/Free question
Keywords: alloc, malloc, free, memory...
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Date: 27 Jun 91 16:31:27 GMT
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I would like to know if MIPS has any plans to change their malloc/free 
algorithms from the powers of 2 bucket approach. As X servers grow
more complex, we are finding that malloc'ing only in powers of 2 can
often result in wasting lots of memory. Would somebody who knows more 
about this, at Mips, please send me a blurb about any possible future 
changes to the memory allocation routines.

The amount of paging/swapping can dramatically slow down a Mips
based machine and as GUI's grow more complex, the problem will 
only get worse. 

Thanks in advance...
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jason ehrhart jason@dsd.es.com  
evans and sutherland
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salt lake city, ut, 84158   (801) 582-5847 x4812