Dynamic memory allocation approaches for C++ apps - pros and cons

[Angelo Fraietta]

Robert S. Grimes wrote:
> Might I ask what you based your allocator on?  Did you use a chunk of 
> memory from the heap, and manage that yourself?  Or did you use RTEMS 
> Regions or Partitions?  I'm particularly interested in the "quality" of 
> those subsystems.

I created a linked list for each class and allocated will malloc when i 
needed it - the size of the required memory is passed in operator new of 
the class. Instead of freeing the memory when I released in my app via 
'delete' , I put it aside and cached for use in the next allocation via 
'new'
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