Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:52:18 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed addition of malloc_size_np() Message-ID: <62503.1143550338@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:42:00 %2B1100." <20060328124200.GB90303@gurney.reilly.home>
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In message <20060328124200.GB90303@gurney.reilly.home>, Andrew Reilly writes: >> This is not merely segmentation, this is object oriented memory. > >I really think that this is something better handled in >software, as is done by JVM and CLI, these days. Well, if hardware could do the "full job" in an efficient manner, that would be the ideal way to do it, because even software bugs in the operating system would not put the system at risk. Unfortunately hardware can't, so we're left with software trying to fend as best it can... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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