[MLton-devel] Minimizing heap copying

[Stephen Weeks]

> There are a few places where the active heap is moved around. For
> instance in resizeHeap the entire active heap is copied if
> grow=true.
...
> I was wondering if this copying could perhaps be avoided
> completely using the mremap() system call ?
> 
> void * mremap(void * old_address, size_t old_size ,
>               size_t new_size, unsigned long flags);  

An excellent idea.  I will look into it soon.  I'll keep around the
old copying code for other OSes (like Cygwin and Solaris).


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