Quake Memory Manager - Part 1: the Zone

[mh]

[metlslime]

[Baker]

[Tomaz]

What codebase is this based on?
Like the comment about Z_TagMalloc not being used? and the code you pasted there? Thats NOT from the original quake code, in fact, all the Z alloc code does happen in Z_TagMalloc, since Z_Malloc pretty much does nothing but call Z_TagMalloc.

[revelator]

hmm aye tomaz is right Z_Malloc does indeed call Z_TagMalloc

and Z_Malloc is used in the vm and filesystem in some places ? allthough using plain mallloc or VirtualAlloc seems to do the trick just fine

[mh]

[Tomaz]

[Baker]

[frag.machine]

Guys... From what I understand, there were no intention to be sarcastic, aggressive or something like that from any part. To me, that's one good example on how having a written conversation can be... complicated, sometimes. Specially to people like me, to whom English is not the main language. That's why emoticons are so valuable: they are there to tell to the other side "hey, don't take everything I am writing here so seriously or in the wrong way".

And now, for something completely unrelated...



/me goes back to my coding hole trying to make moving liquid brushes work

[c0burn]

[Spike]

Z_TagMalloc is useful for FRIK_FILE and unclean mods. Really really useful. I would not otherwise recommend its use.

[frag.machine]

[Teiman]

I did some horrible things in Telejano:

- Moved away from the program-managed memory to OS managed memory. Uh.
- Using a closed source proprietary module to detect memory leaks. I was very vigilant at this, maybe obsessive.

The whole game navigated away from that "16 MB" original footprint of quake to a whole universe of bloat.