Use user defined allocator/deallocator #49
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Now, I'm fighting to reduce memory usage in RMagick which is Ruby ImageMagick bridging.
To work Ruby's GC correctly, we need to know ImageMagick allocated memory size at runtime.
Because Ruby decides whether to run GC by current memory usage.
And the memory usage need to contain Ruby bridging (RMagick) and library (ImageMagick).
If it could notify total allocated memory size (RMagick + ImageMagick) to Ruby correctly,
Ruby's GC will work well and reduce application memory usage.
So, if ImageMagick has used Ruby's allocator configured by SetMagickMemoryMethods(),
Ruby can calculate the memory usage automatically.
This PR makes it possible to refer to a user defined allocator in where using
malloc
/free
directly.By this PR, it reduce RMagick memory usage from blue line to red line.
Related to rmagick/rmagick#697