Thoughts about malloc(3) and threading.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 6 04:31:59 PDT 2004


In message <xzpllfnve4l.fsf at dwp.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=
 writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>> So, short version of my position is:
>> [...]
>
>you forgot the most important part:
>
>"no matter how hard you think it will be to write a good paralell
>allocator, it will be harder than you think"

Shhhh!  you shouldn't have told them that yet.

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