Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] g_mem-chunk_destroy does not free memory for GLib > 2.8

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Meier wrote:

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> If there is no simple way to free up what may be an array of many 
> multiple slices, I'm inclined to replace the use of GMemChunk (at least 
> for those cases) by the use of GArray.
>
> After a quick look, one concern I have is about constantly extending a 
> GArray thus causing a copy each time. I note that it does seem that 
> space for multiple entries can be pre-allocated. So: a wrapper for 
> GArray could be coded which more or less does what I GMemChunk used to 
> do. Or: does GArray have some builtin optimization ?

Looking at the GLib source for GArray I see that there is built-in 
optimization with respect to allocating space when an item is added to 
an array.

So: memory allocation appears to not be an issue when using GArrays.