| From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | John Gorman <johngorman2(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: two slab-like memory allocators |
| Date: | 2016-10-25 22:57:59 |
| Message-ID: | 08542375-63f8-db53-daa0-f73745fdaa00@BlueTreble.com |
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On 10/25/16 4:48 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> The main issue that bugs me is the name of the Gen allocator, but I
> don't have a good naming ideas :( The basic characteristics of Gen is
> that it does not reuse space released by pfree(), relying on the fact
> that the whole block will become free. That should be reflected in the
> name somehow, I guess.
OneTime? OneUse? OneShot? AllocOnce?
OneHitWonder? ;P
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