Have Malloc_Allocator directly inherit from the Allocator interface, without

using the infrastructure in Pooling_Allocator.

Using malloc directly is slightly faster than using Botan's memory pools
(using the glibc implementation). It may also reduce internal fragmentation,
since the current Pooling_Allocator design is rather suboptimal in that
regard.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/defalloc.h b/include/defalloc.h
index 184378d84..afdb95edd 100644
--- a/include/defalloc.h
+++ b/include/defalloc.h
@@ -13,14 +13,15 @@ namespace Botan {
 /*************************************************
 * Malloc Allocator                              *
 *************************************************/
-class Malloc_Allocator : public Pooling_Allocator
+class Malloc_Allocator : public Allocator
    {
    public:
-      Malloc_Allocator() : Pooling_Allocator(64*1024, false) {}
+      void* allocate(u32bit);
+      void deallocate(void*, u32bit);
+
       std::string type() const { return "malloc"; }
-   private:
-      void* alloc_block(u32bit);
-      void dealloc_block(void*, u32bit);
+
+      Malloc_Allocator();
    };
 
 /*************************************************