Talk:Hoard memory allocator

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This article looks like shameless self-promotion. Provide proofs of claim(s) or remove the page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.70.246.110 (talk) 2007-03-21T15:58:42 (UTC)

(Originally asked on Talk:Bisqwit:

Hi Bisqwit, could you please provide some more precision as to the 'weasel words' notation on the Hoard page, since it appears that all comments are based on the cited scientific article. Thanks. --83.44.209.167 (talk) 13:01, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Emery Berger[reply]

Quantitive expressions like "fast", "low fragmentation" and comparative expressions "improve" and "reduce" only make sense if there is a reference point. They are often used in advertising context because of the impression they create without anything concrete. You can make the text more neutral by using quotative expressions such as "aims for low fragmentation" and "claims to improve". A scientific article linked does not offset these problems. Also, the scientific article is apparently written by yourself, which is something on the verge of "original research" and not well-taken in general in Wikipedia. --Bisqwit (talk) 15:17, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, no. The paper in question is peer-reviewed, and published at one of the most prominent venues in computer science research. Hoard is heavily cited and many papers refer to it as state of the art. The reference points used in the original paper include a number of other memory allocators (including the one used by Linux) across a range of applications. The claims are supported both by evidence and by mathematical proofs. 147.83.181.28 (talk) 18:47, 12 March 2009 (UTC)Emery Berger[reply]

Article rewritten

Please review my new version of the article to fix inconsistencies, mistakes and other things. Then, please remove the ((Windows-software-stub)) ((Linux-stub))

I agree with Bisqwit, the previous version of this article was shameless self-promotion because based on an old scientific article. After 2000, other memory allocators have improved their behaviour on multiprocessor architecture due to incoming multicore PC (e.g. Core Duo). Wikipedia cannot say Hoard is the best memory allocator without peer-reviewed recent benchmarks.

--Oliver.hessling (talk) 13:26, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]