malloc vs ptmalloc2

John-Mark Gurney gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Mon Feb 14 14:08:09 PST 2005


David Schultz wrote this message on Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:04 -0500:
> Right, databases, language runtimes, and the small set of other
> applications for which it really matters usually have their own
> special-purpose allocators.  I was counting on that when I said
> that replacing malloc() is unlikely to make a big difference.
> (One could argue, of course, that it's unfortunate that
> applications need to do so.)

Hmmm, maybe we should bring the zone API into userland? :)  It'd be
nice to have some of the features, like the ctor/dtor's...

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