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

["Bogdan Marinescu" <bogdan.marinescu@...>]

You'd probably get higher fragmentation with first bit vs best fit,
but I think the comparison was against dlmalloc.
I only looked briefly at TLSF, but maybe I'll give it a try
eventually. Indeed, the first impression is that its memory overhead
is too much for a memory constrained system.

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Ralph Hempel
<rhempel@hempeldesigngroup.com> wrote:
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>  Hmmm, I'd expect more fragmentation with first fit, but again, the
>  typical usage of the application will determine which produces
>  better results.
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>  What is the typical heap size you're using, and how "big" is dlmalloc
>  on your system?
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>  I've looked at TLSF a few times but the memory overhead for the
>  bitmap and extra code made it impractical. Now that I have some real
>  applications, I can go back to see if the fragmentation wastes
>  significantly more memory than TLSF uses to reduce fragmentation...
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>  Thanks for the extra pointers though - I enjoy reviewing
>  what I've read in the past once in a while to be sure I'm
>  stll going in the right direction.
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>  Ralph
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