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[Robert Watson]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:

> (This being said, since I'm not going to create a malloc implementation any 
> time soon, it of course depends on the particular author what will or will 
> not be supported :) ).
>
>> And since our allocator is vastly superior
>
> phkmalloc isn't any more and it remains to be seen for jemalloc :)

Actually, competitive MySQL benchmarking against Linux seems to illustrate 
that jemalloc is dramatically more scalable than the native glibc malloc, and 
comparable with the google malloc.  I have to admit, however, that I do wish 
we'd retained an easy switch to let us go back and forth between phkmalloc and 
jemalloc for comparison purposes.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge