[fpc-devel]Memory management

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Aleksey V. Vaneev wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   Can be there anything done to improve memmanager's performance?
>   Simple test shows ~83000 GetMems+FreeMems per second on my
>   i486-100MHz (under win95). That's a way little...
>   And the fact that TRY blocks use ordinary memory allocation, all
>   this gives a weird overall sight...

The Try/Finally scheme is being looked in, but this is going to take a
while, since it is not an easy matter.

As for the speed of the memory manager, can you send a testprogram
so I can compare with Delphi/TP/Kylix ?

Michael.