[gclist] An extreme storage allocation case.

Charles Fiterman cef@geode.geodesic.com
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 08:38:29 -0600


I once wrote an assembler for a rom base system. This 
meant I could spend a lot of time in the allocator to 
do a really good job.

While there were no frees there were a lot of items that
had to go into precalculated positions. Those were placed
first. The other items were sorted in order of size and
placed by a perfect fit then first fit algorithm. I tried
a lot of alternatives.

I doubt this story is relavant but maybe it will ring a
bell with somebody.