Re: Variable-block memory managers bad in realtime

[Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>]

gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes:

> > Second, you should probably take a look at some of the work on
> > allocators and collectors in the GC literature.  Including stuff on
> > compaction.  Many of these do indeed have guranteed worst case
> > behaviors.  In particular, check out Henry Baker's work on this stuff
> > (including his realtime GC papers).  These may or may not work for
> > you, but unless you are targetting realtime engine control, or some
> > such, they will likely be OK.
> 
> Will do.  Do you have more specific references?  Thanks.

HB's paper repository:

ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/home.html

UT (Paul Wilson) GC repository:

ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/


> We are doing the equivalent of engine control in many places.

If that's really true (with cycle times measured in microseconds),
this stuff isn't going to work for you.


/Jon

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