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Hi Uxn folks,

I created a simple memory management unit for the Uxn VM.
It provides support for dynamic memory allocation (malloc/free style), and it's done using a virtual memory approach so to access the allocated memory LDA/STA works.

If anyone's interested, I will explain more. There's a README and a rough draft of a DESIGN doc (linked from the README).

https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/uxn-mmu

#Uxn #Varvara #Uxntal


uxn-mmu

A simple memory management unit for Uxn, to support allocate/deallocate paged virtual memory.
Codeberg.org
#uxn #uxntal #varvara
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Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega
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It's interesting 😀 I've made one of those in uxn-space a few months back, that's also how potato allocates memory for apps. 😀
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WimⓂ️
WimⓂ️
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@neauoire I thought of doing it in uxn-space but I thought the performance hit would be considerable, and you need some indirection for the LDA/STA, isn't it? Good I didn't do it, since you already did.
I have two designs, the one I published is transparent but less good at reclaiming deallocated memory.
How do you get rid of holes on deallocation?
@Devine Lu Linvega
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Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega
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When I close an application I do a bit of garbage collection, the application API has a "reset" entry point where the application can do its own memory cleanup before its memory pointer changes.
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WimⓂ️
WimⓂ️
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I see, the fact that you have applications makes it a bit different. What I have is a global virtual memory space, I assume you have one per application. I'll need to have a look at the potato code.
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