Use of Memory Slices in N-ary Trees

[Manu Kaul <manu kaul gmail com>]

Hi All,

I was wondering if it was possible to use memory slices to allocate larger chunks of memory for a large n-ary tree, where both are being implemented using glib? 

For new nodes in the N-ary tree, I only see a function like --> g_node_new but this might be doing a malloc every time it assigns a new node or does it do something smarter? I have noticed that the Glib Arrays and PointerArrays allow me to declare a new array and allocate it a chunk beforehand. How can I achieve the same using Glib for n-ary trees? Would be a great help if I could get a tip.

Cheers,

CBro