Chunk based (m)allocation of structures was part of MonetDB version 1. Stefan de Konink wrote:
GooglePerformanceTools gives an alternative (threaded) implementation of malloc under a BSD License. Has it even been tested with MonetDB before?
http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/wiki/GooglePerformanceTools
I mean, it looks very simple to use and test :) And implements the ideas I have heard before by doing memory management with big chunks of memory instead of small allocations.
Stefan
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