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Re: Power of two bucket allocator

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Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with the term?
> The allocated but unused and unusable space in the returned bucket.
> Think Swiss cheese; most of it is holes.

I see.  Powers of two allocated out of page quanta really bound this in
practice--McKusick's experience has been born out in my experience, both in
actual UNIX kernels (HP-UX, PTX) as well as in ForthOS.  Of course, the
resource efficiency of Forth (and ForthOS) intersecting with modern bounty of
RAM means it's easy to have "plenty".

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Andy Valencia
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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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