Memory manager for Free Pascal and Lazarus

[OpenSIMPLY]

My friend advised me to share this thing too, so:

Simply Memory Manager for Free Pascal and Lazarus.

Simply Memory Manager is a replacement for the native memory manager for Free Pascal and Lazarus projects on Windows.

Learn more on the homepage: https://opensimply.org/smm

[Red_prig]

It would be more interesting if you compared your memory manager not with the standard manager, but for example with this project: https://github.com/maximmasiutin/FastMM4-AVX

[BrunoK]

Bof, I did some start lazarus (start of running lazarus ide to lazarus application idle) timings a few years ago, with FastMM, Heap.inc and cmem.

The results where not different enough that not using the standard heap.inc would be justified and I had to modify fastmm to run with freepascal.

The cmem.pp implementation that gave very good results when multi-threading, at least in windows, has been so badly butchered in its implementation, that it can not be used across different languages using malloc/winheap family of memory allocation.

And whatever, a problem is that the FPC team does not want to start an alternate memory manager at the very, very beginning of the initialization of a process.

[Leledumbo]

I need an explanation for "avalanche-like memory allocation requests", the dictionary for avalanche points to an ice, snow or rock falling down quickly on the side of a mountain. Does this mean large requests in a short burst or what?

[OpenSIMPLY]

I need an explanation for "avalanche-like memory allocation requests", the dictionary for avalanche points to an ice, snow or rock falling down quickly on the side of a mountain. Does this mean large requests in a short burst or what?

Exactly.

[marcov]

My friend advised me to share this thing too, so:

Simply Memory Manager for Free Pascal and Lazarus.

This already has been plugged, and there was no answer to any enquiries to why it was a good thing. See e.g. https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,63085.msg477738.html#msg477738

[OpenSIMPLY]

This already has been plugged, and there was no answer to any enquiries to why it was a good thing. See e.g. https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,63085.msg477738.html#msg477738

Funny. I didn't get any feedback on using Simply Memory Manager.

[OpenSIMPLY]

It would be more interesting if you compared your memory manager not with the standard manager, but for example with this project: https://github.com/maximmasiutin/FastMM4-AVX

Actually, I only wrote Simply Memory Manager to prevent memory errors. The slightly faster speed is just a side effect.

If you want to compare performance, just modify the project included in the SMM distribution; plug in the memory manager of interest there.

[marcov]

This already has been plugged, and there was no answer to any enquiries to why it was a good thing. See e.g. https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,63085.msg477738.html#msg477738

Funny. I didn't get any feedback on using Simply Memory Manager.

The questions were about substantiating claims. IOW proven performance with more than one application and on both 32-bit and 64-bit.

I got the impression the memory manager was mainly aimed at shoehorning an application that is near the 32-bit memory threshold to remain 32-bit.   

Besides that, GPL for a reusable unit is next to useless as a license.

[OpenSIMPLY]

The questions were about substantiating claims. IOW proven performance with more than one application and on both 32-bit and 64-bit.

I got the impression the memory manager was mainly aimed at shoehorning an application that is near the 32-bit memory threshold to remain 32-bit.   

Besides that, GPL for a reusable unit is next to useless as a license.

As I mentioned above, the SMM was written to prevent memory errors. It works symmetrically for both 32- and 64-bit applications (at least I think so).

The issue of a license is, in principle, a matter of debate. The license could be changed to the LGPL. If a person wants to change something, she/he just has to ask the question first. Again: I have no feedback, only downloads.