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Re: Allocation zones question
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Philippe C.D. Robert |
Subject: |
Re: Allocation zones question |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:40:13 +0100 |
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was reading comments about OSX speed on /. and someone did mentioned:
>
> "...The use of allocation zones can also speed up the VM system a great deal
> ..."
>
> I know, that in comments on /. there you may find anything, but anyway, I am
> just interested in whether that statement about zones and speedup is true or
> not. If yes, how it is possible and is it true also for GNUstep?
I am not sure if this is really useful on Linux or *BSD, but on Mach's VM
system you can control memory zones in a very flexible way. So I think (but
I am not sure...) that this feature is only useful on Mach kernels, and of
course only if GNUstep takes advantage of it - which I doubt...:-)
-Phil
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