From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 1 01:46:22 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 BCB3916A419 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:46:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3108913C4B0 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:46:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup58.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.58]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id lA11ETw0001060 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:14:52 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lA11EKRg052039; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:14:20 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lA11E88O052038; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:14:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:14:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Eduardo Morras Message-ID: <20071101011406.GA51988@kobe.laptop> References: <4727F543000944E9@> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4727F543000944E9@> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.145, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.25, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 01:46:22 -0000 --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On 2007-11-01 02:06, Eduardo Morras wrote: > 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. That would be fantastic! >> 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. I will, thanks for the references; they look interesting :) --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHKShe1g+UGjGGA7YRAs0xAJ0Tett+fNSgVA+jj53g1x1dgJ6t8ACgk1OK e45jA0eCjGzhp42vQcdmx1A= =N5Qc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--