How the Nasal GC works: Difference between revisions

How the Nasal GC works (view source)

129 bytes removed , 17 May 2012

m

20,741

edits

@@ Line 278: / Line 278: @@
 = The pool manager =
 All high level type allocators (naNewString, naNewVector, naNewHash etc) make use of the naNew() call introduced earlier.
-naNew() doesn't directly allocate new memory from the heap, but instead use the naGC_get() helper which manages memory from the global pools (i.e. preallocated memory for each type).
-The interesting part is the naGC_get() function which isn't directly mapped to naAlloc() or malloc(), but instead manages the Nasal memory pools.
+naNew() doesn't directly allocate new memory from the heap using naAlloc(), but instead use the naGC_get() helper which manages memory from the global pools (i.e. preallocated memory for each type).
 For each native Nasal data type (scalars, vectors, hashes, funcs etc) , there are separate memory pools in globals->pools[n]. The index (n) is one of T_VEC, T_HASH, T_FUNC etc.