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Re:Linked lists in C, with open source ADT by spinlocked on Saturday January 19, 2013 @10:54PM (#5085940)
Do you need magic to create an O(1) allocator for a pool of fixed size objects?
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Re:Linked lists in C, with open source ADT by marshray on Saturday January 19, 2013 @11:39PM (#5086026)
Yes, when (as in the general case of std::list) the number of objects is not known in advance.
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Re:Linked lists in C, with open source ADT by spinlocked on Sunday January 20, 2013 @12:29AM (#5086102)
true. however, libstdc++ implements __pool_alloc for a reason.
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