From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_05, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c70f02b79bc3d231 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Spam Hater Subject: Re: dynamic memory allocation Date: 1997/06/17 Message-ID: <33A6AE5C.74CD@no.such.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 249087013 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <33A55F1B.63FE@gsfc.nasa.gov> Organization: See Warning Below! Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > They are proposing a message passing scheme where sending tasks > allocate buffers for each message from a heap, and receiving tasks > deallocate. I have suggested that the heap could become fragmented > (the buffers areNOT all the same size). .... If they're using out-of-the-box Verdix (now Rational?) the heap WILL become fragmented. I've heard but not verified the same about Alsys. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------