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From: Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
To: Alex <alexx@inbox.lv>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Memory management in Cygwin
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.1000319161935.16154C-100000@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38D528C7.431B316E@inbox.lv>

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



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  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-19 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-19 11:26 Alex
2000-03-19 14:27 ` Mumit Khan [this message]
2000-03-22  9:52   ` Alex
2000-03-22 15:24     ` Mumit Khan

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