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- From: Phong Vo <kpv@research.att.com>
- Subject: Re: allocator studies (was Re: GC & traditional allocators & textbooks)
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- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 23:40:56 GMT
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- Paul Wilson wrote:
- >
-
- > 1. Traditional allocator research has largely missed the point, because
- > the true causes of fragmentation haven't been studied much. Most
- > studies (a recent exception being Zorn, Grunwald, and Barrett's
- > work at the U. of Colorado at Boulder, and Phong Vo's latest paper
- > from Bell Labs) have used synthetic traces whose realism has never
- ^^^^^^^^^
- > been validated, rather than real program behavior.
- >
- Just a quick note that I am now with the new AT&T Research.
- The main topics of the paper that Paul mentioned are a new API for memory allocation
- called Vmalloc and a performance study comparing it against a number of
- well-known malloc implementations. The code is currently available for non-commercial
- use for anyone interested at the below url:
- http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/reuse/
- This address also has pointers to many other neat software tools from our group.
-
- Phong Vo, kpv@research.att.com
-