Reason for doing malloc / bzero over calloc (performance)?

[Ivan Voras]

youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:

> Hmmm... I wonder what the Mach kernel in OSX does to allocate memory
> then. I'll have to take a look at OpenDarwin's source sometime and see
> what it does.

Following the link chain from the benchmark link posted in this thread
I've come to the information that it's similar to -CURRENT: small
allocations are carved from the local pool, big ones from prezeroed
pages (from kernel).

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