Thoughts about malloc(3) and threading.

[Doug White]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> 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.

*snicker*

Sounds like a project for a bored college student looking for a thesis.
Do you know of any references to research papers on the topic?  Would some
of UMA's fundamentals apply?

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