Re: FastMM 4.40 released (replacement memory manager for Delphi IDE and applications, free and open source)
- From: "Jason" <jason@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:35:59 +0300
Nexus DB internally uses their MM (NexusMM).
"Shane Stump" <ShaneStumpNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Is this library compatible with NexusDB? Or does NexusDB automatically use
> its own MM?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shane
>
> "Pierre le Riche" <pleriche@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:434f9610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've just uploaded the latest version to SourceForge. Here is some info
>> about FastMM:
>>
>> Description:
>> A fast replacement memory manager for Borland Delphi Win32 applications
>> that
>> scales well under multi-threaded usage, is not prone to memory
>> fragmentation,
>> and supports shared memory without the use of external .DLL files.
>>
>> Homepage:
>> http://fastmm.sourceforge.net
>>
>> Advantages:
>> - Fast
>> - Low overhead. FastMM is designed for an average of 5% and maximum of
>> 10%
>> overhead per block.
>> - Supports up to 3GB of user mode address space under Windows 32-bit and
>> 4GB
>> under Windows 64-bit. Add the "$SetPEFlags $20" option (in curly
>> braces)
>> to your .dpr to enable this.
>> - Highly aligned memory blocks. Can be configured for either 8-byte or
>> 16-byte
>> alignment.
>> - Good scaling under multi-threaded applications
>> - Intelligent reallocations. Avoids slow memory move operations through
>> not performing unneccesary downsizes and by having a minimum percentage
>> block size growth factor when an in-place block upsize is not possible.
>> - Resistant to address space fragmentation
>> - No external DLL required when sharing memory between the application
>> and
>> external libraries (provided both use this memory manager)
>> - Optionally reports memory leaks on program shutdown. (This check can be
>> set
>> to be performed only if Delphi is currently running on the machine, so
>> end
>> users won't be bothered by the error message.)
>> - Supports Delphi 5 (or later), C++ Builder 6 (or later), Kylix 3.
>>
>> Change log:
>> Version 4.29 (30 September 2005):
>> - Added the "RequireDebuggerPresenceForLeakReporting" option to only
>> display
>> the leak report if the application is run inside the IDE. (Thanks to
>> Günther
>> Schoch.)
>> - Added the "ForceMMX" option, which when disabled will check the CPU for
>> MMX compatibility before using MMX. (Thanks to Jan Schlüter.)
>> - Added the module name to the title of error dialogs to more easily
>> identify
>> which application caused the error. (Thanks to Kristofer Skaug.)
>> - Added an ASCII dump to the "FullDebugMode" memory dumps. (Thanks to
>> Hallvard
>> Vassbotn.)
>> - Added the option "HideExpectedLeaksRegisteredByPointer" to suppress the
>> display and logging of expected memory leaks that were registered by
>> pointer.
>> (Thanks to Dan Miser.) Leaks registered by size or class are often
>> ambiguous,
>> so these expected leaks are always logged to file (in FullDebugMode)
>> and are
>> never hidden from the leak display (only displayed if there is at least
>> one
>> unexpected leak).
>> - Added a procedure "GetRegisteredMemoryLeaks" to return a list of all
>> registered memory leaks. (Thanks to Dan Miser.)
>> - Added the "RawStackTraces" option to perform "raw" stack traces,
>> negating
>> the need for stack frames. This will usually result in more complete
>> stack
>> traces in FullDebugMode error reports, but it is significantly slower.
>> (Thanks to Hallvard Vassbotn, Dan Miser and the JCL team.)
>> Version 4.31 (2 October 2005):
>> - Fixed the crash bug when both "RawStackTraces" and "FullDebugMode" were
>> enabled. (Thanks to Dan Miser and Mark Edington.)
>> Version 4.33 (6 October 2005):
>> - Added a header corruption check to all memory blocks that are
>> identified as
>> leaks in FullDebugMode. This allows better differentiation between
>> memory
>> pool corruption bugs and actual memory leaks.
>> - Fixed the stack overflow bug when using "RawStackTraces".
>> Version 4.35 (6 October 2005):
>> - Fixed a compilation error when the "NoMessageBoxes" option is set.
>> (Thanks
>> to Paul Ishenin.)
>> - Before performing a "raw" stack trace, FastMM now checks whether
>> exception
>> handling is in place. If exception handling is not in place FastMM
>> falls
>> back to stack frame tracing. (Exception handling is required to handle
>> the
>> possible A/Vs when reading invalid call addresses. Exception handling
>> is
>> usually always available except when SysUtils hasn't been initialized
>> yet or
>> after SysUtils has been finalized.)
>> Version 4.37 (8 October 2005):
>> - Fixed the missing call stack trace entry issue when dynamically loading
>> DLLs.
>> (Thanks to Paul Ishenin.)
>> Version 4.39 (12 October 2005):
>> - Restored the performance with "RawStackTraces" enabled back to the
>> level it
>> was in 4.35.
>> - Fixed the stack overflow error when using "RawStackTraces" that I
>> thought I
>> had fixed in 4.31, but unfortunately didn't. (Thanks to Craig
>> Peterson.)
>> Version 4.40 (13 October 2005):
>> - Improved "RawStackTraces" to have less incorrect extra entries. (Thanks
>> to
>> Craig Peterson.)
>> - Added the Russian (by Paul Ishenin) and Afrikaans translations of
>> FastMM4Messages.pas.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pierre
>>
>
>
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