Monthly Archives: December 2005

20.12.2005 Tuning GSlice memory consumption

20.12.2005 – 13:22

The other day, Tommi Komulainen pointed out to me that GSlice is using more memory than memchunks for him after bootup of the N770. Now, GSlice is supposed to be faster than memchunks, yes. And its supposed to scale far better across multiple threads. In the long run it is also meant to be [...]

By Tim Janik | Posted in GLib | Comments (2)

14.12.2005 Never reject a feature!

14.12.2005 – 04:48

I didn’t mean to engage in the flamage about the printer dialog or usability design issues with Gtk+’s new file chooser, but i do feel that a few things should be pointed out in this context nonetheless. In particular, I’d like to respond to Dave Neary (bolsh), quote: “Linus is irrelevant”. There’s an important [...]

By Tim Janik | Posted in General | Comments (8)

02.12.2005 Landing g_slice_new()

02.12.2005 – 05:56

I finally managed to finish up the new g_slice_*() allocator for GLib CVS and commit it. For most platforms, it should be a lot faster than malloc(), and on my machine it saves 20-30% in performance over allocating with mem-chunks. But most importantly, it does share equally sized chunks across a program, which mem-chunks [...]

By Tim Janik | Posted in GLib | Comments (2)

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