thread aware malloc

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 13 13:48:21 PDT 2005


In message <425D8546.2050306 at he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius writes:
>
>Is somebody already working on thread-optimizing malloc to have less 
>contention, avoid false sharing issues, etc.?

I'm not aware of any active work.

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