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Re: init_cheap and _csbrk
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:51:53AM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>"Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>> And even if I got the slop working there would still
>> be a call to VirtualAlloc. It shouldn't matter since it will
>just
>> be allocating allocated memory but that means it probably isn't
>> really worth it anyway. So, I've reorganized things one more
>time.
>> And, no more slop.
>
>Good point: I hadn't quite got as far as thinking too clearly
>about what was being optimised. I bet a call to VirtualAlloc to
>commit an already committed page is cheap and so some optimization
>might be possible, but without instrumenting a few test programs
>who knows what difference it would make.
I was toying with doing something like:
_cfree (cmalloc (HEAP_STR, 2 * page_size))
which would have the effect that I was looking for but decided that
there was no clear win in doing that.
cgf