
12 Feb
2006
12 Feb
'06
10:42 p.m.
"Kim Barrett" wrote:
The object allocation mechanisms provided by shmem are, surprise, dynamic allocation. If a system design forbids dynamic allocation, there is nothing magical about the shmem library's allocation mechanisms that would make it more acceptable in such a system.
shmem, being so limited, may provide lower and easier to estimate upper limits than dynamic allocation provided by OS/compiler RTL. (The stress is on /may/, I don't know whether anyone will rely on such assumption.) /Pavel