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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: On absurdity of collections 7.6.1 (11.1/3)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 09:57:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sj6f1q$tlp$2@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sj5oui$qt7$1@franka.jacob-sparre.dk

On 2021-10-01 03:40, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> news:sj5127$1bbu$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>> On 2021-09-30 20:23, G.B. wrote:
>>> On 29.09.21 11:09, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>>> For Ada programmers who wonder what it is,
>>> What's the reasoning behind run-time selection of storage pools?
>>
>> It happens quite frequently. Here is an example without controlled
>> objects, just an illustration of a dynamically selected storage pool.
>>
>> Consider a JSON parser. It is be an Ada object with a buffer inside which
>> size is a discriminant. On top of the buffer sits an arena pool. The parts
>> of the parsed JSON object are allocated in the arena. After parsing the
>> result can be used until the next parsing that will sweep the arena, no
>> Unchecked_Deallocate.
>>
>> In this case the collection rule will have no effect since JSON objects do
>> not require controlled components (or tasks, yet another thing killed by
>> the collection).
> 
> To implement an arena pool, you need to use the subpool mechanism (which
> does properly handle finalization when you "sweep the pool" as you put it).
> Each "arena" is a separate subpool, and you can dump the entire subpool with
> Unchecked_Deallocate_Subpool.

Not in this case, where all pool is arena. Allocate takes memory from 
the object's buffer.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

      reply	other threads:[~2021-10-01  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-29  9:09 On absurdity of collections 7.6.1 (11.1/3) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-29 11:05 ` Simon Wright
2021-09-29 11:20   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-29 21:38     ` Simon Wright
2021-09-30  8:07       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-30  8:35         ` Simon Wright
2021-09-30  8:49           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-01  1:37         ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01  7:57           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-30  0:23     ` Randy Brukardt
2021-09-30  8:06       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-30 18:23 ` G.B.
2021-09-30 18:52   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-01  1:40     ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-01  7:57       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
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