New libc malloc patch

David Xu davidxu at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 30 00:03:24 GMT 2005


Jon Dama wrote:

>I looked into the issues and limitations with phkmalloc several months ago
>and concluded that simply adopting ptmalloc2 (the linux malloc) was the
>better approach--notably it is willing to draw from both brk and mmap, and
>it also implements per-thread arenas.
>  
>
Hi Jon,

Is there any chance to test the jamalloc and ptmalloc2 ? I would
like to see next ten years, we will use a best performance memory
allocator. :-)

David Xu



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