This paper on a malloc() replacement that DOES COMPACTION even on C/C++ is making the rounds: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04738.pdf
Scarily beautiful.
@federicomena Interesting! Well worth a read!
Strikes me that GNOME partitions their heap quite similarly with their "Slice" allocator, so I wonder how quickly they would adopt this?
@alcinnz I'm afraid glib's slice allocator is pretty obsolete these days 😅
I think it was nice when system malloc() was slow, but those have improved a lot. Also, unfortunately Glib's slice allocator could never really use the recycle-to-default-values scheme from Solaris's original allocator.
I don't remember if the GTK team had plans to remove GSlice and just use malloc... maybe @hergertme remembers?
@federicomena @alcinnz @hergertme@mastodon.social https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1079 is the relevant GitLab ticket
@slomo thanks!