Memory management in Cygwin
Mumit Khan
khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU
Sun Mar 19 14:27:00 GMT 2000
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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