From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 01:07:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9D316A419 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from resmaa10.ono.com (mta.auna.com [62.42.230.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9189513C4A3 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nec556@retena.com) Received: from argente-2005.retena.com (83.173.188.82) by resmaa10.ono.com (7.3.118.8) (authenticated as nec556@retena.com) id 4727F543000944E9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 02:06:55 +0100 Message-ID: <4727F543000944E9@> (added by postmaster@resmaa10.ono.com) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:06:52 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Eduardo Morras Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: memory pool, rfc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:07:27 -0000 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