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From: Phong Vo <kpv@research.att.com>
Subject: Re: allocator studies (was Re: GC & traditional allocators & textbooks)
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Paul Wilson wrote:
> 

>    1. Traditional allocator research has largely missed the point, because
>       the true causes of fragmentation haven't been studied much.  Most
>       studies (a recent exception being Zorn, Grunwald, and Barrett's
>       work at the U. of Colorado at Boulder, and Phong Vo's latest paper
>       from Bell Labs) have used synthetic traces whose realism has never
             ^^^^^^^^^
>       been validated, rather than real program behavior.
> 
Just a quick note that I am now with the new AT&T Research.
The main topics of the paper that Paul mentioned are a new API for memory allocation
called Vmalloc and a performance study comparing it against a number of
well-known malloc implementations. The code is currently available for non-commercial
use for anyone interested at the below url:
	http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/reuse/
This address also has pointers to many other neat software tools from our group.

Phong Vo, kpv@research.att.com
