Re: Question about Lua 5.1.3 and realloc() on life.lua

[Thomas Harning <harningt@...>]

On May 2, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Doug Currie wrote:

> On Friday, May 02, 2008 Ralph Hempel wrote:
>
> > I've written a stripped down best-fit malloc that is very fast on
> > ARM7 devices with very limited RAM. I still get fragmentation on
> > the order of 20-30%.
>
> You would expect high fragmentation with best fit.
>
> TLSF has been mentioned on this list a few times:
> http://lua-users.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=tlsf&sort=score&idxname=lua-l&max=20
>
> I use dlmalloc for embedded software; it's hard to beat.
Just a note: I found out that the 'original' TLSF is GPL/LGPL so it  
can be used in closed-source situations. (not sure what dual-license  
provides w/ GPL + LGPL...)

I'd be interested in seeing benchmarks/features of those 2 different  
implementations compared...