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From: Toby Sargeant <toby@forefront.com.au>
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Subject: GNU Malloc (was Re: Memory allocation probs...)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:19:03 +1100
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I have a port of GNU malloc done for the psx, if anyone wants it.  I've never
bothered to do timings against the psx version, though, so I can't say what the
advantages are likely to be. I'd expect it to either be faster, or be more
efficient at the memory it returns to the malloc arena.

One of the nice (IMHO) features that my port has is that you can specify the
size and position of the malloc arena, rather than being forced to give it the
memory from the top of your code to the top of memory. Unfortunately, given
that there's no memory managment (I thought that the R3000 _did_ have memory
management.  has this just been ripped out, was it external, or is it just
disabled?) there's no neat way to increase the size of the arena, because it
has to be a contiguous block of memory. One simple extension would of course be
to have multiple arenas, but that would become messy to use.

Now I've just got to find the time to do something _interesting_ with it :(

toby.