* sam's memory allocator
@ 1995-04-07 10:14 Mark H. Wilkinson
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From: Mark H. Wilkinson @ 1995-04-07 10:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
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In the SP&E paper about sam it's mentioned that sam uses a custom memory
allocator which allocates strings in a garbage-compacted heap. The version
which is released these days uses just malloc() and realloc(). What was
the reason for throwing the custom allocator away?
-Mark.
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Mark H. Wilkinson <mhw@minster.york.ac.uk> : Research student in user
University of York, England : interface management systems
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* Re: sam's memory allocator
@ 1995-04-07 15:40 rob
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From: rob @ 1995-04-07 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sam-fans
The original allocator was a residue of life on the Blit. When I moved the
program to a Unicode character set and had to redo the allocation, it
seemed superfluous.
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