[fpc-devel] TLCLMemanager

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt schreef:
> > 
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The LCL contains the non-visual unit LCLMemManager:
> > > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk/lcl/lclmemmanager.pas
> > > I would like to propose that you rename it and add it to the FCL.
> > >
> > > It contains some simple (base) clasess for pooling records and objects.
> > >
> > > For the binary trees benchmark at
> > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=binarytrees&lang=all
> > > I wrote an alternative using the TLCLNonFreeMemManager. The alternative
> > > runs
> > > in 40% of the time of the original and uses less memory.
> > 
> > If the lazarus people agree with this, I see no problem in doing so.
> 
> I think they will agree, but I will ask to make sure.
> 
> > What name would you suggest ? 
> 
> A name change because of the LCL in the name. But just TMemManager is too
> generic, IMHO.
> 
> What about TMemoryPool and TNonFreeMemoryPool?

Don't you think the word MemoryManager (MM) should be in it ?
like pooledmm ? (and class TPooledMemoryManager) ?

Michael.