By: Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org), July 1, 2022 11:15 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Jörn Engel (joern.delete@this.purestorage.com) on July 1, 2022 9:40 am wrote:
> Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org) on July 1, 2022 12:55 am wrote:
> >
> > By slabs I assume that you refer to memory allocators like those used internally by gcc.
>
> Sorry, but this sentence is enough to stop reading the rest of the post.
> I suggest you read the two Bonwick papers or at least he Wikipedia page:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_allocation
>
> If you have not heard of slab allocators before, you probably
> don't have much experience related to your claims.
Not knowing or not remembering the name which others happen to use for a thing, especially n computer science, where random words have been applied to most concepts, with little or even no relationship to the previous meaning of those words ("slab" certainly qualifies as an example), is not at all equivalent with not knowing what that thing is.
> Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org) on July 1, 2022 12:55 am wrote:
> >
> > By slabs I assume that you refer to memory allocators like those used internally by gcc.
>
> Sorry, but this sentence is enough to stop reading the rest of the post.
> I suggest you read the two Bonwick papers or at least he Wikipedia page:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_allocation
>
> If you have not heard of slab allocators before, you probably
> don't have much experience related to your claims.
Not knowing or not remembering the name which others happen to use for a thing, especially n computer science, where random words have been applied to most concepts, with little or even no relationship to the previous meaning of those words ("slab" certainly qualifies as an example), is not at all equivalent with not knowing what that thing is.
