Re: Glib Object Caching

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Kaustubh Atrawalkar wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is there any object caching mechanism in glib? The paper given in the
> gslice.c header part says the there is object caching mechanism. But i
> wonder hows exactly it is done? While calling g_slice_alloc function
> there is just a request of memory size. It does not mention anything
> about the object identification. Also is there any prefetching done on
> the basis of object's life time prediction ?

GSlice/GLib does not cache _initialized_ objects.
it does caching of memory slices of the size of commonly allocated
objects though.

> Kaustubh Atrawalkar
> System Software Engineer

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