Thomas Willhalm wrote in message ...
>Couldn't it be useful to have two methods for allocation memory?
>1) the POV_MALLOC used so far
>2) a new method of memory that can only be freed on exit of the program.
>
>With method 2), POV-Ray can allocate large parts of memory instead of
little
>chunks. The size of the "little chunks" doesn't matter anymore and
therefore
>needn't be stored. This decreases memory consumption and its handling
>by the OS. The "large parts" could be handled by a linked list. Only for
the
>last part -- the current one -- a pointer to the last byte (word) that is
>used is necessary.


With a linked list, you still have the overhead of remembering which parts
of the large chunk of memory are in use.

Mark

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