Re: Use of Memory Slices in N-ary Trees

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 13:42 +0100, Manu Kaul wrote:
> Ok I understand that its using g_slice_new0, but does this mean that
> it does it just for a single GNode, one at a time?
> What I was after was more like say being able to allocate 100 such
> GNodes at a time upfront if I had a tree with say 5000 nodes in it or
> something, so I am able to get a whole chunk of GNodes at the one
> time! 
> Maybe I am misunderstanding something? 

You know, this is called "open source" for a reason. In the time spent
here for asking these questions, and the time needed by others to
respond, you could have easily downloaded a glib tarball and simply
look at the code ten times.

ciao,
--mitch

> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tadej Borovšak <tadeboro gmail com>
> wrote:
>         Hi.
>         
>         > Ah perfect! So you mean that when I create a new node using
>         GNode it will
>         > automatically use g_slice_alloc behind the covers?
>         
>         
>         Yes, nodes are allocated using g_slice_new0(GNode) (unless you
>         have
>         G_SLICE env variable set to "always-malloc").
>         
>         
>         Tadej
>         
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>         
> 
> 
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