Re: MySQL Reengineering Project

[Kristian Nielsen]

Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@stripped> writes:

> Avoiding malloc is a noble goal indeed!
>
> But for request-based systems, though, would it not be a good idea to
> have an Apache-style request memory pool system, which could allocate
> objects less than a certain size limit sequentially from pages of a
> suitably tuned size, thus amortizing mallocs behind an abstraction
> layer rather than having lots of little tricks here and there?

What you describe here sounds very much like the memroot functionality that is
widely used in the server.

 - Kristian.