From: Kenneth Gober (kgobergmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 07 2010 - 15:19:38 CDT

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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Henning Brauer <lists-openbsdbsws.de>wrote:

> * Ted Unangst <ted.unangstgmail.com> [2010-08-07 19:54]:
> > you write your own allocator.
>
> don't. ever.

to put it another way, if memory fragmentation ever does become a problem
for you, there is probably an easier and safer solution than writing your
own allocator. upgrading to a 64-bit platform, for example, is likely to be
a far better solution. modifying your app to use malloc(3) and free(3) more
conservatively may be a viable option as well, although at that point you're
starting down the road of writing your own allocator again.

-ken

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