From: vaxs09@alpha.vitro.com (John Briggs)
Subject: Re: Variable-block memory managers bad in realtime
Date: 1997/12/23
Date: 1997-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1997Dec23.082519@alpha.vitro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gwinn-2212971856140001@dh5055115.res.ray.com
In article <gwinn-2212971856140001@dh5055115.res.ray.com>, gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes:
> Fixed-block allocators waste no space, and have absolutely constant
> service time.
If I ask for 10 bytes and you feed me 100 bytes, there's 90 bytes wasted, no?
If I ask for 1000 bytes and your allocation area has 50 100 byte blocks
remaining, there's 5000 bytes wasted, no?
But you should know this. So I'm puzzled.
John Briggs vaxs09@alpha.vitro.com
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1997-12-22 0:00 Variable-block memory managers bad in realtime Joe Gwinn
1997-12-23 0:00 ` John Briggs [this message]
1997-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-12-30 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-31 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-01-01 0:00 ` Henry Baker
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1997-12-19 0:00 Joe Gwinn
1997-12-10 0:00 Joe Gwinn
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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