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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: Zone allocator (KHTML)
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () rikkus ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-06-10 18:34:00
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On 02-Jun-99 Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I'm proud to announce the succcesfull deployment of a Zone allocator
> in KHTML. The Zone allocator allows to allocate all objects used for
> building up a HTML-page in several large (128Kb) blocks of memory.
> The blocks of memory are freed when the HTML-page is destructed,
> not when the indivual objects get destructed.

Sounds funky :)

>      Do you know/have an application which uses large amounts of 
>      objects (e.g. 1000) which have a strongly coupled lifecycle?

Er, I construct thousands in Empath - they're index records for messages in a
mail folder. What's a 'strongly coupled lifecycle' ?

> I am also interested to learn about applications that use a large
> number of objects of the _same_ class without necesarrily a strongly
> coupled lifecycle.

Yes, these are of the same class. I think this might apply to me, as you want
those with and without a strongly coupled thingy.

Oh, I also have to create a QListViewItem for each. Good job QString's shared,
eh ;)

Cheers,
Rik


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