[Development] std::allocate_shared for QSharedPointer

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Mittwoch, 13. September 2017 03:40:03 CEST Ed Leaver wrote:
> /What??? /You mean there's actually a /reason/ people aren't knocking
> the doors down over these things? =-O
> 
> 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.
> 
> Then tactfully suggested a more appropriate standard. Tactfully enough
> that the suggestion was accepted.
> 
> 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.
> 
See
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=glibc-malloc-thread-cache