Re: Finding out minimal allocation unit

[Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de>]

Martin Krischik wrote:

> First we need to know which platform you are using (compiler/OS).

GNAT on GNU/Linux, Windows and Solaris, where the memory allocation
should work well on all three of them (but using separates or package
Naming in a project file to supply different algorithms for the
allocation strategy is no problem).

> Then: how a storrage pool get's it memory is up to the pool designer.

> In your case you could allocate a large chuck of memory strait from
> the OS and then sub-allocate it using an algorithm optimised for your
> needs.

When using storage pools, can the storage pools be dynamically resized,
or is a storage pool, once created, fixed in its size? The latter would
rule out using storage pools since we do not know in advance how many
data we need to store, just the "Item_Type" is known when instantiating
the data structure, so it's size is known (provided we can trust the
'Size, 'Object_Size, and 'Component_Size attributes).

-- 
Stefan Bellon