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Cheng Shao authored
`Foreign.Marshal.Pool` used to call `malloc` once for each allocation request. Each `Pool` maintained a list of allocated pointers, and traverses the list to `free` each one of those pointers. The extra O(n) overhead is apparently bad for a `Pool` that serves a lot of small allocation requests. This patch uses the RTS internal arena to implement `Pool`, with these benefits: - Gets rid of the extra O(n) overhead. - The RTS arena is simply a bump allocator backed by the block allocator, each allocation request is likely faster than a libc `malloc` call. Closes #14762 #18338.
Cheng Shao authored`Foreign.Marshal.Pool` used to call `malloc` once for each allocation request. Each `Pool` maintained a list of allocated pointers, and traverses the list to `free` each one of those pointers. The extra O(n) overhead is apparently bad for a `Pool` that serves a lot of small allocation requests. This patch uses the RTS internal arena to implement `Pool`, with these benefits: - Gets rid of the extra O(n) overhead. - The RTS arena is simply a bump allocator backed by the block allocator, each allocation request is likely faster than a libc `malloc` call. Closes #14762 #18338.
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