From: Alex <alexx@inbox.lv>
To: Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Memory management in Cygwin
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38D90755.CCBB8862@inbox.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.1000319161935.16154C-100000@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu>
Mumit Khan wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Alex wrote:
>
> > I'm interested to know if C/C++ compilers in Cygwin somehow optimize
> > memory allocation/deallocation routines like getting large blocks from
> > OS and then redistributing small portions to the program.
> > Thanks for help!
>
> It's not the compilers, but rather the runtime that manage the memory
> pools, and yes, Cygwin's memory manager does do pool optimization just
> like every other `malloc' package out there.
>
> Cygwin's malloc is based on, as far as I can tell, Doug Lea's public
> domain implementation. See his homepage http://g.oswego.edu/index.html
> for the design document (go down to the "Software" section).
>
> Regards,
> Mumit
Thanks for help, but it still isn't clear for me, how the memory management
is done in the programs compiled in Cygwin. How about executables build with
-mno-cygwin option? As I know they don't use any runtime libraries. Does the
linker put memory optimization code in them?
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2000-03-19 11:26 Alex
2000-03-19 14:27 ` Mumit Khan
2000-03-22 9:52 ` Alex [this message]
2000-03-22 15:24 ` Mumit Khan
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