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1Package: dbestfit - a dynamic best-fit memory allocator
2Date: 1996 - 2002
3Version: 3.3
4Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
5License: MIT originally, files in the Rockbox project are GPL licensed.
6
7 I wrote the dmalloc part for small allocation sizes to improve the behavior
8of the built-in (first-fit) allocator found in pSOS, during late 1996 and
9spring 1997.
10
11 I wrote the bmalloc part (best-fit with optional splay-tree sorting) just for
12the fun of it and to see how good malloc() implementation I could make. The
13quality of my implementation is still left to be judged in real-world tests.
14
15TODO:
16 * Remove the final not-so-very-nice loop in dmalloc.c that checks for a block
17 with free fragments (when the list gets longer too much time might be spent
18 in that loop).
19
20 * Make a separate application that samples the memory usage of a program
21 and is capable of replaying it (in order to test properly).