Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:06:52 +0100 From: Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory pool, rfc Message-ID: <4727F543000944E9@> (added by postmaster@resmaa10.ono.com)
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At 01:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: >This is a 'general' questions list, with a fairly high level of traffic. >Many FreeBSD committers and team affiliates are subscribed, but there >are still a lot of knowledgeable people who are respected team members, >but are *not* subcribed here. > >Maybe in a more appropriate list you can get a greater amount of >visibility with people who can help your contributions to be integrated >with the main source code tree of FreeBSD. Understood > > I think that in this list are FreeBSD *gurus*/hacks too which could > > say a "try it" or a "are you crazy?" answer. If other developers > > thinks that they need my rfc i'll add my code to FreeBSD. > >It's hard to tell in advance, without actually *seeing* something in the >form of a proposal, or at least an implementation. >..... >testing process of the source integration, and so on. > >This means that the next reasonable step would be to make available at >least a proposal or source patch, and post it to one of the developer >lists of FreeBSD. The freebsd-hackers list would be nice. I can prepare a malloc-like pilot implementation and detailed paper. > It doesn't sound >like a productive use of everyone's time, unless we have a solid plan >for a better zlib replacement in place :-) You can check http://www.maximumcompression.com/index.html and http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html for the state of the art lossless compressors. >Giorgos Thanks
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