MIT Technology Review: An Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup

[Pragma]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> zz wrote:
>> Pragma wrote:
>>> zz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> While I'm no STL guru, I have to ask: which allocator were you using 
>>> with ptr_vector?
>>>
>> For the first number we used VS2003 SMT CRT (Default allocator)
>> With the other test we used nedmalloc as the allocator (just over load 
>> new and delete in C++ (it's a c library).
>>
>> http://www.nedprod.com/programs/portable/nedmalloc/
>>
>> Zz
> 
> I was going to ask why he didn't compare his algorithm with dlmalloc, 
> but I see it actually is based on dlmalloc.  So I wonder what exactly 
> the differences is between this and dlmalloc.
> 
> Incidentally I know this guy from his posts on the FOX mailing lists. 
> He's been working on this thing called Tn[1] for about 10 years.  He's 
> either insane or brilliant I can't really tell.  :-) Read the 
> description of "What is Tn" to see what I mean.
> 
> [1] http://www.nedprod.com/Tn/index.html
> 
> --bb

Wow, that's pretty neat.  I'm leaning more towards brilliance than 
insanity on this one.

For a solid baseline of insanity, please visit the Time Cube:

http://www.timecube.com/

(Warning: you'll go schizophrenic just *trying* to make sense that page.)

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