Re: Glib Object Caching

[Kaustubh Atrawalkar <kaustubh atrawalkar celunite com>]

Ok. But was there any approaches taken before like the object's lifetime 
prediction or some kind of prefetching? If it is done how much it can be 
beneficial? The aim is to optimize glib's memory performance in both 
usage and time complexity.

Tim Janik wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Kaustubh Atrawalkar wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there any object caching mechanism in glib? The paper given in the
> > gslice.c header part says the there is object caching mechanism. But i
> > wonder hows exactly it is done? While calling g_slice_alloc function
> > there is just a request of memory size. It does not mention anything
> > about the object identification. Also is there any prefetching done on
> > the basis of object's life time prediction ?
>
> GSlice/GLib does not cache _initialized_ objects.
> it does caching of memory slices of the size of commonly allocated
> objects though.
>
> > Kaustubh Atrawalkar
> > System Software Engineer
>
> ---
> ciaoTJ


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