[Development] std::allocate_shared for QSharedPointer
Konstantin Tokarev
annulen at yandex.ru
Wed Sep 13 03:47:39 CEST 2017
13.09.2017, 04:40, "Ed Leaver" <ewleaver at comcast.net>:
> What??? You mean there's actually a reason people aren't knocking the doors down over these things? =-O
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> A few months ago I was handed a C++ Coding Standard that deigned to prohibit any further heap allocation after program initialization. It was originally intended for a hard real-time system; I racked my feeble mind trying to ascertain how it could possibly apply to our particular project, and finally suggested -- much as yourself -- that if memory allocation were felt to be a legitimate concern, there were hooks enough described in man 5 proc to settle the issue one way or another.
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> Then tactfully suggested a more appropriate standard. Tactfully enough that the suggestion was accepted.
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> I ran across TCMalloc in the process. It sounds Really Neat -- but it wasn't clear why it's Really Neat properties hadn't already been incorporated into the standard kernel allocator. Is why I asked.
Don't confuse kernel allocator with libc (malloc) allocator.
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> Thanks!
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> On 09/12/2017 08:43 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On Monday, 11 September 2017 17:45:01 PDT Ed Leaver wrote:
>>> Have any of you experience with jemalloc or TCMalloc? http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
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>> Yes. I don't remember which of the two allocators or the details, but I remember one of them had a huge thread-safety problem and would corrupt itself. Use at your own risk. I will close any bug reports filed if you change malloc.
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Konstantin
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