[Development] std::allocate_shared for QSharedPointer

[Ed Leaver]

Thanks Allen, bookmarked it :)

On 09/13/2017 03:54 AM, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> 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
>