On 3 Jul 2002, Paolo Perego wrote: > > Regarding in-kernel issues like memory management, task and thread > Damn... no coffee this morning for me :P > Sure, they are working on the O(1) scheduler for improving task > scheduling performance. I hope they will improve memory management. As > developer I would like my kernel do some check against my malloc() - > free() mismatch... or I would like some sys_call to do a "garbage > collector" job like :) malloc() and free() are purely library-calls, not syscalls. The library just calls brk() and manages the newly get space by itself. Garbage colletor is thing I personally hate sooo much - it allows programmers to write unclean code, makes system quite slow (thus it's quite inprobable it will ever go to kernel ;) ), because you have to build graphs of dependencies between identifiers, etc. -- JiKos. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
