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| From | Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: About transactional memory |
| Date | 2015-10-22 02:51 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <n09fbe$7kk$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <n099da$p0g$1@dont-email.me> <n099vp$qho$1@dont-email.me> <20151022024411.5dd9275c@maxa-pc> |
On 22/10/15 01:44, Melzzzzz wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:20:09 +0100 > Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote: > >> On 22/10/15 04:12, Ramine wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> I was thinking more and more... >> >> Okay, I'll run with that for now. >> >>> >>> And now i have come to an interesting subject... >>> >>> Perhaps you will ask me a question as this: >>> >>> Amine, why have you invented your new scalable distributed >>> reader-writer mutex, and why have you not simply used transactional >>> memory like: Intel TSX or others.. >> >> Well, no, but I do have a question for you. >> >> This code is from Mlock.pas: >> >> Buffer1 := AllocMem(SizeOf(TListEntry) + Alignment); >> FCount1 := PListEntry((int(Buffer1) + Alignment - 1) >> and not (Alignment - 1)); >> >> I am guessing that AllocMem is rather like malloc, in that it >> allocates a bunch of memory. Is AllocMem an implementation-defined >> function, or one of yours? If it's one of yours, where is the source >> code? >> >> If it's not one of yours, what happens if it can't allocate the >> memory? Does it return some kind of failure indicator, a la malloc? >> >> If so, why aren't you testing for that, and is all your code this >> shaky? >> > > It can be configured to either return NULL or throw run time error. > By default it throws error. Okay, so if there isn't enough memory, either it throws an error, in which case the program aborts unexpectedly (I see no "catch" code here), or it scribbles all over memory it doesn't own. Neither option looks good from over here. -- Richard Heathfield Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 Sig line 4 vacant - apply within
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Re: About transactional memory Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-22 01:20 +0100
Re: About transactional memory Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-22 02:44 +0200
Re: About transactional memory Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-10-22 02:51 +0100
Re: About transactional memory Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-22 04:00 +0200
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