Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : chris noonan
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 12:49 pm


Oliver S. wrote:
> > The literature suggests that typical programs may spend 20% of
> > their running time inside the allocator (heap manager) routines.
>
> If you really need performance, use thread-local pooling for memory
> allocations (the local pool may swap memory-blocks with a global
> pool)

Swapping memory blocks - is that some sort of moveable memory?

> and if you need even more performance, use thread-local pools
> for equally sized objects. That's a magnitude faster than lock-free
> allocations on a global heap.

Which measurements of which lock-free allocator with a
global heap are you referring to?

Chris

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