Re: fragmentation and Lua script

["J. Perkins" <jason@...>]

paul@theV.net wrote:
> Is this considered ordinary? How do I avoid lots of fragmentations? My
> game is using lua scripts extensively, including many non-permanent
> small string, small table and closure creation in every frame cycle.

It you grab the latest F4 snapshot (located at 
http://www.379.com/f4), you can pull out the memory manager I'm 
using. It "pools" < 4K allocations together into larger pages, 
avoiding memory fragmentation. You can also see how I patched the 
Lua code to use it. It's also a lot faster than the std mem 
operators. I don't notice the Lua gc blips in my development code 
any more, though I'm still scaling up the content.

Jason
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