Re: Common allocation sizes for Lua

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 11 Sep 2008, at 06:19, Thomas Harning wrote:

> Just wondering... are there any common allocation sizes for Lua  
> that could perhaps take advantage of a memory pool (like boost's..  
> only coded in C instead)?

If you're suffering performance problems that you believe are due to  
memory allocation then plug in another memory allocator.  Such as  
dlmalloc.  Do NOT write your own.

If you're still suffering performance problems and you are absolutely  
sure that it is the memory allocator, then better start reading some  
papers.  Start here: http://www.memorymanagement.org/bib/ and here:  
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gc.html .

If your summary of Boosts' memory pool template class is correct,  
then they had better start reading some papers too.

drj