[webkit-dev] WebKit memory management?

[Paul Pedriana]

As I mentioned in a previous response, this unfortunately doesn't work 
because all operator new is directed to FastMalloc, not just WebKit's 
usage of operator new. Operator new is global in a linkage unit.

Thanks.

Paul


> On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Paul Pedriana wrote:
>> The application should be able to set aside a block of RAM and have 
>> the library use that block of RAM via a user-supplied memory 
>> allocator. At no time should the library attempt to use any other 
>> memory nor use its own means to access the user-provided memory. This 
>> pattern of library development is very important, and most 
>> professional commercial library software follows this pattern 
>> (including all commercial peers of WebKit). I am wondering how I 
>> might achieve this with WebKit.
> Here's how:
>
>     1) Change the <wtf/FastMalloc.cpp> source file to invoke this 
> memory allocator instead of TCMalloc.
>     2) Let us know about any concrete problems you encounter where 
> that allocator isn't used, and we'll help you fix them and investigate 
> putting those fixes in the WebKit trunk too.
>
> Good luck!
>
>     -- Darin
>
>