[cap-talk] Confessions of a C programmer

[Bill Frantz]

marc.d.stiegler at hp.com (Stiegler, Marc D) on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 wrote:

>Every point made by every person in this discussion reinforces my belief Ocaml is the way for you to 
>go for your next generation of programming. There might be a problem somewhere (does the memory 
>manager have to make syscalls? Eeek), but that is the place to start.

Generally memory managers start with a pool of memory they can allocate,
and they allocate until they run out. Only then do they issue a syscall to
grow the pool. Now there may be ones that start with a zero-size pool, so
they need to grow it on the first allocation, but working around that
behavior should be a simple hack. (Thanks be for open source.)

Cheers - Bill

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