Current Status

Thu Feb 18 13:26:00 GMT 1999

On 1999年2月18日, Godmar Back wrote:
>In Kaffe, we use 19 freelists (i.e., 19 sizes) at this time, so the worst 
>case overhead is less than 76K on a 4K ppage architecture such as the x86
>for wastage of type 1.
>
I think that this ignores the fact that garbage collection can leave multiple
unfilled blocks for a given size. A given block of objects can only be recycled
to contain blocks of a different size once ALL of the objects in that block
have been collected. In a perverse case, you might have several 4K blocks
each having only a single 16-byte object.
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