Hi, > Uh what? Someone crank out his copy of "The Art of Computer > Programming", I think volume 1. Best fit is known (analyzed and proven > and documented decades ago) to be one of the worst strategies for memory > allocation. Exactly because it leads to huge fragmentation problems. Well, quoting http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html: "As shown by Wilson et al, best-fit schemes (of various kinds and approximations) tend to produce the least fragmentation on real loads compared to other general approaches such as first-fit." See [Wilson 1995] ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/allocsrv.ps for more details and references. Regards, Wolfram. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
