FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Hoard and other allocators

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Stefano Ceccherini" <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2008/4/7, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > It is my understanding that Haiku uses the Hoard memory allocator 
> > by
> >  Emery Berger. I remember when it was first ported to BeOS. 
> > However, it
> >  couldn't be updated after the license changed from LGPL to GPL.
> >  (unless you pay for a commercial license..)
> Yes, but we're still using the LGPL version. Of course, we can't 
> update.

Nothing important has changed since then (besides the license), AFAIK, 
though.
Anyway, there is also the allocator of the Google performance tools.

IMO the hoard allocator serves us nicely for now. Once we have a useful 
set of benchmarks ported to Haiku, we might want to reevaluate the 
allocator issue, though.
Usually, the allocators I've seen so far are hesitant to compare 
themselves with real competitors - they usually only benchmark against 
some old ones.

Bye,
   Axel.