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

[Kovarththanan Rajaratnam <kovarththanan.rajaratnam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Bill,

Bill Meier wrote:
> 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 ?
>
>
> Comments ?
> (or: what am I missing as to the best way to replace the use of 
> GMemChunk ?).

Is there any reason why we couldn't use se_alloc and friends? This 
should be faster now that we're defaulting to _not_ use canaries for 
seasonal memory.

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Best regards,
Kovarththanan Rajaratnam