Memory Management in AmigaOS4.0 Explained

[Hattig]

In the end the point is that Amiga OS 4.0 now has memory allocation algorithms that aren't {bleep}, and are comparable to what is used in other operating systems today.

What part of this is bad? Would you rather they had left it as it was?

For people who don't care about AmigaOS4 I wonder why you seem to care so much. I think you do it to troll, you're not adding anything to the discussion, you appear to have a personal vendetta against the Hyperion people, people that have at least put a lot of their time and money into a platform that you claim to love. Indeed you ignore technical responses that don't suit you, and nitpick on people's words. Grow up.

[Hattig]

Now why dont you grow up, and if you really dont like the thread, dont read it, or post in it.

I like the subject of the thread, so why shouldn't I post in it?

My point was that people are making too much effort in deriding it, beyond simple academic interest. For some it is 'it's AmigaOS, so let's find an issue with whatever it is and then harp on about it for ever and ever'.

Even I agree the example was poor, but a poor example does not negate the fact that this replacement method is most likely a hell of a lot better than the old method. And better is good. It isn't as if people haven't been running AmigaOS4 beta for a long time anyway. There must be a good reason that many other operating systems use the same or a similar allocation algorithm - probably the usage situation is a lot different these days, and a list based mechanism will be a lot slower with hundreds/thousands of entries, whereas the slab system, whilst taking a little more memory, will be a lot faster?

Was the Belgian guy Ben Hermans? He did go on a bit on ANN in the day, a bit too far. Wasn't he let go from Hyperion?

I'm sorry you lost your money on the Amiga Inc coupon thing (I presume). Note that whilst being interested in AmigaOS4 I don't have an interest in Amiga Inc themselves, whatever they're doing these days. They messed around the community too much.