Re: Allocation zones question

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was reading comments about OSX speed on /. and someone did mentioned:
> 
> "...The use of allocation zones can also speed up the VM system a great deal 
> ..."
> 
> I know, that in comments on /. there you may find anything, but anyway, I am 
> just interested in whether that statement about zones and speedup is true or 
> not. If yes, how it is possible and is it true also for GNUstep?

I am not sure if this is really useful on Linux or *BSD, but on Mach's VM
system you can control memory zones in a very flexible way. So I think (but
I am not sure...) that this feature is only useful on Mach kernels, and of 
course only if GNUstep takes advantage of it - which I doubt...:-)

-Phil
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