Re: Power of two bucket allocator

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Power of two bucket allocator
Date	2012-08-03 15:45 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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vandys@vsta.org writes:
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> It greatly increases internal fragmentation.
>
>I'm not familiar with the term?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(computing)#Internal_fragmentation>

It's the memory wasted for each allocation, in particular because more
memory is allocated than is requested.

- anton
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Power of two bucket allocator vandys@vsta.org - 2012-08-02 20:22 +0000
  Re: Power of two bucket allocator anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-03 14:55 +0000
    Re: Power of two bucket allocator vandys@vsta.org - 2012-08-03 15:35 +0000
      Re: Power of two bucket allocator Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2012-08-03 08:44 -0700
        Re: Power of two bucket allocator vandys@vsta.org - 2012-08-03 16:07 +0000
      Re: Power of two bucket allocator anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-08-03 15:45 +0000
    Re: Power of two bucket allocator vandys@vsta.org - 2012-08-03 15:40 +0000

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