pile

Vocabulary

memory.piles

Class description

A pile is a block of raw memory that can be apportioned out in constant time. A pile is allocated using the <pile> word. Blocks of memory can be requested from the pile using pile-alloc, and all the pile's memory can be reclaimed with pile-empty.

Definition

USING: alien math ;

IN: memory.piles

TUPLE: pile
    { underlying c-ptr initial: f } { size integer initial: 0 }
    { offset integer initial: 0 } ;

Methods

USING: accessors destructors kernel libc memory.piles ;

M: pile dispose [ [ free ] when* f ] change-underlying drop ;