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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Using Ada.Containers.Vector and Limited Private types
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:23:18 +0100
Date: 2008-07-16T22:23:18+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mykhed6h.fsf@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 16cdae3f-83fa-4bd2-a9d1-3750518ff9d8@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com

Gene <gene.ressler@gmail.com> writes:

> You might want to be careful about this. I guess it depends how soft
> soft is. Internally it looks like GNAT ends up calling gcc
> malloc/free for UBS.  Implementations of malloc/free can have wildly
> varying performance depending on current heap structure.  Your app
> may meet time requirements today on test data and fail tomorrow
> because the heap has fragmented in a different way.

I can support this! malloc/free in VxWorks 5.5, for example, can
behave very badly if you have even a small leak amidst a lot of memory
churn.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-05 11:53 Using Ada.Containers.Vector and Limited Private types Dale Stanbrough
2008-07-05 15:42 ` george.priv
2008-07-06 18:09 ` Gene
2008-07-06 19:18   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-07 13:29     ` Gene
2008-07-07 14:15       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-07 18:39         ` Gene
2008-07-10  0:16   ` Dale Stanbrough
2008-07-10  7:31     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-10 22:59     ` Gene
2008-07-11 22:06       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-07-12  2:45         ` Gene
2008-07-12  4:41           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-07-13 15:30             ` Gene
2008-07-13 18:10               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-07-16 21:23               ` Simon Wright [this message]
2008-07-12  8:02           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-12  7:53       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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